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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00064
- Thesis Title
- A Software-based Knowledge Management System using Narrative Texts
- Author
- Thomas Rudy McDaniel
- E-mail
- rmcdaniel AT dm.ucf.edu
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Ph.D.
- Year
- 2004
- Number of Pages
- 269
- University
- University of Central Florida
- Thesis Supervisor
- Paul Dombrowski
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Dan Jones, Karla Kitalong
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- English: Texts and Technology
- Copyright Ownership
- Thomas Rudy McDaniel
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.english.ucf.edu/faculty/mcdaniel/temp/McDaniel_Thomas_R_200404_PhD.pdf
- Keywords
- story; narrative; knowledge management; artificial intelligence
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This dissertation explores the field of knowledge management (KM), particularly its relationship to the related study of artificial intelligence (AI), and then recommends a KM software application based on the principles of narratology and narrative information exchange. The focus of knowledge is shifted from the reductive approach of data and information to a holistic approach of meaning and the way people make sense of complex events as experiences expressed in stories. Such an analysis requires a discussion of the evolution of intelligent systems and narrative theory as well as an examination of existing computerized and non-computerized storytelling systems. After a thorough discussion of these issues, an original software program that is used to collect, analyze, and distribute thematic stories within any hierarchical organization is modeled, exemplified, and explained in detail.