Today, while our products (like wireless devices, computers, etc.) are becoming smarter and their size shrinking, we are witnessing an increased use of knowledge engineering & management for developing such “smart” features, logics, and behaviors. There is a series of ongoing intensive debates in research communities on the importance of KEM for this new smarter business world. In recent years, th
e conventional techniques of product development approaches have evolved into so called knowledge-based engineering and management field. As a result, the new KEM approach has found many application ground and opportunities not only in the popular economic worlds but also in other areas such as education, urban planning and development, governance and healthcare, and so on. Today many US and international organizations are beginning to adopt knowledge engineering and management techniques, tools and their process frameworks for achieving key strategic advantages and for obtaining supremacy in collaborative product development and global competiveness. Prasad, PTR Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1996. CEBOOK_VOL I: Integrated Product and Process Organization, (ISBN 0-13-147463-4)
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