Knowledge Management System Architecture for Industrial Applications Using Web Mining Techniques

Knowledge Management System refers to a system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information. It can comprise a part of a knowledge Management initiative. Knowledge Management can be regarded as a form of representation at the results of action and reflection in Explicit form Since the concept of the Industry cluster was popularized by Porter in 1990, many countries try to improve the competitiveness through Industry sector. Not only companies who take part in the cluster but also academic institutes, government agencies, associations and supportive industries. The more actors involved in the cluster the more knowledge were distributed among member of cluster. Although many literatures about cluster explained how knowledge is important for the cluster development. But, there is no specific knowledge management methodology or system for the cluster. This study is concerned about knowledge exchange in the cluster by using knowledge engineering methodology to analyze, model and design Knowledge Management System (KMS). At the end of this study, KMS will be studied the possibilities of implementing in the handicraft cluster as our case study. This paper present methodology and primary result form knowledge engineering. Then the KMS architecture was proposed as the result of the preliminary study in this paper.