Jeanette Marie Bruno

Facilitating knowledge flow through the enterprise

This paper is concerned with the issues we encountered when attempting to achieve enterprise level knowledge reuse. We present three pilot studies where new visualization techniques were used to allow manufacturing and service operations take advantage of engineering knowledge embodied in 3D models. Though all these studies showed dramatic productivity increases, only one business unit from the studies is currently working to achieve the reuse. There are a number of reasons why this is so, but the key underlying theme is a lack of enterprise level commitment to knowledge sharing and a lack of an adequate knowledge architecture for sharing knowledge across organizational boundaries. We conclude with an approach for facilitating knowledge flow across functional units. Copyright

Interactive control restructuring

An interactive algorithm for improving control flow is introduced. This algorithm has been implemented within the ENCORE re-engineering environment. The objective of the algorithm is to restructure input code so as to simplify the control flow. A key feature of the algorithm is that is permits user control during the restructuring. The algorithm also handles, in a natural manner, multiple return statements, multiple loop exits, multi-level loop exits and endless loops.