Knowledge dynamics assessment in complex organizational systems: a missing person investigation case study

Knowledge representation for missing persons investigations

“…Fyfe et al (2015) commented upon the complexities of capturing and representing knowledge related to police investigations, as policing is enmeshed in a web of situational and structural contingencies. Agrež and Damij (2015) stated that codification of the knowledge within organizational processes can provide the opportunity to overcome some of the limitations of knowledge management in organizational processes that may be uncertain or unstable. Knowledge representation for procedural aspects of an organization’s activities based upon situation calculus has been used in different areas such as manufacturing (Solano et al , 2014), construction (El-Diraby, 2013), business management (Di Ciccio et al , 2015; Weldemariam and Villafiorita, 2011) and health care (Aziz et al , 2013).…”

Editorial

“…The papers in this issue show that operations research at SOR is regarded as a broad research field covering both a wide spectrum of applications and theoretical studies of general methods. In the first paper, a case study of missing person investigation (Agrež and Damij 2015) emphasizes the importance of knowledge dynamics in complex organizational systems. A practical scheduling problem from the Czech and Slovak educational systems is regarded in Cechlarova et al (2015), providing theoretical results and practical solutions.…”