<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Production networks have been established in many industrial domains with globalized supply structures, sourcing strategies or cooperation environments. Knowledge management in such networks requires a context-oriented approach in order to accommodate for individual and organizational needs when providing relevant knowledge for complex tasks, such as value creation. The focus of this paper is on the procedure by which to determine what actually has to be taken into account as part of the ‘context’ for establishing context-oriented knowledge management, how to capture this context, and how to use it. The variability of organisational and individual tasks both at design time and at runtime is essential for understanding context in production networks. The main contribution of the present study is a context modelling method, including variability identification. The application of this method is demonstrated by using an example of a production network from automotive industries.</p></abstract>

Production networks have been established in many industrial domains with globalized supply structures, sourcing strategies or cooperation environments. Knowledge management in such networks requires a context-oriented approach in order to accommodate for individual and organizational needs when providing relevant knowledge for complex tasks, such as value creation. The focus of this paper is on the procedure by which to determine what actually has to be taken into account as part of the ‘context’ for establishing context-oriented knowledge management, how to capture this context, and how to use it. The variability of organisational and individual tasks both at design time and at runtime is essential for understanding context in production networks. The main contribution of the present study is a context modelling method, including variability identification. The application of this method is demonstrated by using an example of a production network from automotive industries.

Context-oriented Knowledge Management in Production Networks

St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Sciences

Applied Computer Systems

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Production networks have been established in many industrial domains with globalized supply structures, sourcing strategies or cooperation environments....

Context-oriented Knowledge Management in Production Networks

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 81 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2018-0011

Keywords
Context computing, context modelling, enterprise modelling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, production network, variability

© 2018 Kurt Sandkuhl et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Context-oriented Knowledge Management in Production Networks

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 81 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2018-0011

KeywordsContext computing, context modelling, enterprise modelling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, production network, variability

© 2018 Kurt Sandkuhl et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
Context computing, context modelling, enterprise modelling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, production network, variability