Posted by Denham on December 14, 2002 at 08:59:27:

In Reply to: KM and Modern Analytic Approaches posted by Reilly Atkinson on December 12, 2002 at 20:51:52:

Greetings Reilly,

There are software applications in engineering diagnostics and customer support areas that claim to use fuzzy logic, e.g. Kurzweil technologies and href="http://www.rightnow.com/products/response.html">RightNow.

Back in the 'old' days 1988-1991 I used a very simplified form of fuzzy logic to build expert systems for assigning clonal trees to specific ecological niches where they would perform with the minimum amount of stress. Our system never quite completed the induction loop to generate rules from expeimental data, so I would hesitate to say this was KM as currently practiced.

I'm not familiar with 'perceptual mapping', but have used factor & cluster analysis, PCA, gradient & spatial analysis, PCT and other multivariate techniques to discover 'patterns' and explore relationships in a wide variety of data sets. This is more around data analysis than KM - but as a member of a research team, we did share feedback, explore best practices and share lessons learned in a rather close "community of practice".

I'm sure there are many more who have a foot in both camps - data analysis and KM. Here is an example

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