People-focused knowledge management

Abductive Reasoning: A special case of inductive reasoning resulting
in specific assertions that imply the available information in the
context of the background knowledge without logical certainty.
Example: Premise: “Those dogs are mastiffs.” Background knowl-
edge: “All Erik’s dogs are mastiffs.” Hypothesis: “Perhaps those
dogs are Erik’s.”
Acquisition: Knowledge may be acquired and represented for inclu-
sion in a knowledge model. Acquisition can be performed by 
eliciting knowledge from a domain expert, inducing knowledge
from examples, porting knowledge from databases, and by other
methods. Also see Knowledge Acquisition.
Actor: An agent that perform actions — predominantly a person but
can be an organizational entity or a computer programmed to
handle situations.
Action Space: The realm, the “space,” within which a person — or
enterprise — is competent, willing, comfortable, or otherwise pre-
pared to make decisions and act. The action space is not a passive
domain with fixed boundaries. It is formed by the creative capa-
bilities, methodologies and attitudes, mentalities, and motivations
that allow actors to perform regular tasks and consider novel
actions and innovate within the boundaries of what they find 
to be permissible and acceptable and is closely related to what is
considered to be allowable.
Adjacent Function: A business function that exchanges (provides or
receives) consultation or collaboration resources, information, or
secondary work products with the target function.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): A subfield of computer science concerned
with pursuing the possibility that a computer can be made to
behave in ways that humans recognize as “intelligent” behavior in
each other. Applied AI becomes a broader field than AI, including
cognitive, social, and management sciences.