“…Since its development KBS has been widely applied to various studies and issues, including performance assessment [57,59,56], e-procurement exception management [36], stock market investment [9], product pricing [48], dynamic logistics process management [11], marketing decision [61], outsource manufacturing [10], urban infrastructure management [45], cost estimating [40], bank loan risk management [60], airborne decision support [23], strategic planning [24], work-related risk analysis [43], debris-flow problems analysis [55], and production [44]. Consequently, the KBS has gained considerable acceptance recently in the current information management literature.…”