Omar Zakaria

Establishing of knowledge based framework for situational awareness using Nonaka's and Endsley's models

Up to this moment, there is no knowledge based framework with situational awareness using the combination of two models: Nonaka and Endsley. These models can assist our research in terms of collecting and transforming appropriate tacit knowledge into enhancing the existing explicit knowledge. The existing explicit knowledge can be found from training module (doctrines) or any relevant documents. However, tacit knowledge is not easily extracted due to being stored implicitly into the mind of the experienced staff. Therefore, this paper explains the structured way on how to collect appropriate tacit knowledge from the experienced staff.

Document Clustering in Military Explicit Knowledge: A Study on Peacekeeping Documents

In Military domain, knowledge can also be categorized into explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge, where the explicit military knowledge can be any form of knowledge that can easily articulated, codified, accessed and stored into various media forms. Further, advanced computer technologies give a convenient platform for digitizing documents, producing web documents and electronic documents, including this explicit military knowledge (e.g. military peacekeeping documents). The main goal here is to discover useful knowledge from military peacekeeping documents. Yet, text mining is a powerful technique that is widely used for discovering useful patterns and knowledge specially in unstructured text documents. This paper describes Text Analytics of Unstructured Data (TAUD) framework for analyzing and discovering significant text patterns exist in the military text documents. The framework consists of three (3) components: (i) data collection (ii) document preprocessing and (iii) text analytics and visualization which are word cloud and document clustering using K-Means algorithm. The findings of this study allow the military commanders and training officers to understand and access the military knowledge which they had learnt and gathered during the training programs before they can be deployed into a peacekeeping mission.