A New Research Field: Intelligent Knowledge Management

Knowledge or hidden patterns discovered by data mining from large-scale databases has great novelty, which is often unable to be gained from the experts. Given large-scale databases, this paper proposes foundations of intelligent knowledge management. It enables to generate "special" knowledge, called intelligent knowledge base on the hidden patterns created by data mining. Furthermore, this paper systematically analyzes the process of intelligent knowledge management - a new proposition from original data, rough knowledge, intelligent knowledge, and actionable knowledge as well as the four transformations (4T) of these items. This study not only promotes more significant research beyond data mining, but also enhances the quantitative analysis of knowledge management on hidden patterns from data mining.