This is the first book on experience-based knowledge representation and knowledge management using the unique Decisional DNA (DDNA) technology. The DDNA concept is roughly a decade old, and is rapidly attracting increasing attention and interest among researchers and practitioners. This comprehensive book provides guidelines to help readers develop experience-based tools and approaches for smart engineering of knowledge, data and information. It does not attempt to offer ultimate answers, but instead presents ideas and a number of real-world case studies to explore and exemplify the complexities and challenges of modern knowledge engineering issues. It also increases readers' awareness of the multifaceted interdisciplinary character of such issues to enable them to consider - in different ways - developing, evaluating, and supporting smart knowledge engineering systems that use DDNA technology based on experience.

This is the first book on experience-based knowledge representation and knowledge management using the unique Decisional DNA (DDNA) technology. The DDNA concept is roughly a decade old, and is rapidly attracting increasing attention and interest among researchers and practitioners. This comprehensive book provides guidelines to help readers develop experience-based tools and approaches for smart engineering of knowledge, data and information. It does not attempt to offer ultimate answers, but instead presents ideas and a number of real-world case studies to explore and exemplify the complexities and challenges of modern knowledge engineering issues. It also increases readers' awareness of the multifaceted interdisciplinary character of such issues to enable them to consider - in different ways - developing, evaluating, and supporting smart knowledge engineering systems that use DDNA technology based on experience.

Experience has made species to survive and cultures to prevail, as experience makes organizations to succeed. Thus, capturing the experience of every decision taken in an explicit representation form is highlighted as the utmost importance in knowledge engineering presented in this book. Decisional DNA knowledge representation allows building the experiential fingerprints of an organization by implementing a model for transforming information into knowledge. The Smart Knowledge Management System (SKMS) is a self-learning and intelligent knowledge management hybrid platform developed to help decision makers in their daily operation. Technologies such as expert systems, simulation, statistical tools, knowledge-based systems, and multiple AI technologies are integrated into the SKMS allowing the combination of different perspectives for acquiring the required explicit decisional experiential knowledge by the means of Decisional DNA. The presented tools offer useful insights to professionals, students and researchers interested in knowledge engineering and knowledge management, but more generally, in the artificial intelligence and information systems fields.