Title:	A CASE STUDY ON RESEARCH ASSISTANT SYSTEM –FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
Author(s):	Jin Tan David Yang , Ming Jey Huang
ISBN:	972-98947-7-9
Editors:	Kinshuk, Demetrios Sampson and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2004
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Knowledge Management System, Research Assistant System, community of practice, organizational learning, ontology.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	241
Last Page:	248
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The purpose of this study is to develop a web-based Research Assistant System (RAS), a Knowledge Management System by community of practice, to improve the group performance of Research Assistants (RAs). Knowledge management is concerned with effective and efficient access to internal and external knowledge that enable an organization to be informed of its environment. The methodology of this study consists of system analysis/design and implementing system in which is based on free software—PhpBB that allows us to add special features to meet RAS’s requirements. The testing phase in this study also obtained from RAs feedbacks. Two contributions of RAS are: (a).The RAS with shared memory exposes an interest in how research performance is not purely a function of an individual's achievement, and in the ways in which tasks and problems are shared; the organization memory implies an emphasis on how individual insights combine in a group, and on the structure and dynamics of such group thought processes;(b). The RAS plays as organizational learning support system that individual problem solving is inspired by how groups of experts can come together and solve problems in a way that the individuals could not do on their own. Finally, the implications of RAS in terms of Knowledge Management are also discussed.
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