Document Management for the Knowledge Worker System.

Abstract

Knowledge workers are personnel who perform business processes that involve the use of information resources to generate a product that is itself some form of manipulated information. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USACERL) is conducting research and development on a performance support environment for knowledge workers called the Knowledge Worker System (KWS) that enables workgroups to define the tasks, information resources, institutional knowledge, and computer applications required to perform their business processes. KWS provides the capability for knowledge workers to define associations ("attachments") between a task and the information resources required to execute their tasks. Attachments allow knowledge workers to access documents while executing a task, and can be associated with any electronically stored information resource from anywhere within the KWS process model. This research: (1) developed a strategy for providing KWS users with improved attachment management capabilities and (2) developed methods to implement this strategy through a series of modifications to KWS Version 2.0, now available to KWS users.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA301340

Entities

People

  • Duane D. Sears
  • Sandra Kappes
  • Wayne J. Schmidt

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Attachment
  • Commerce
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Local Area Networks
  • Military Facilities
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)
  • Word Processors
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Industrial Economics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics