?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Knowledge%2C+Practice%2C+Activities+and+People&rft.creator=Sierhuis%2C+M.&rft.creator=Clancey%2C+William+J.&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+perspective+of+modeling+knowledge+in+Artificial+Intelligence+is+that+these+models+are+equal+to+the+knowledge+itself+(e.g.+equate+the+map+with+the+territory).+This+encoding+view+treats+knowledge+as+if+it+were+primarily+verbal+and+assumes+that+verbal+concepts+themselves+can+be+replaced+by+descriptions+of+concepts%C2%97as+if+a+body+of+descriptions+and+neural+categorizations+were+equivalent+mechanisms+for+generating+behavior.%5B+%5D+This+paper+describes+a+number+of+concepts+around+the+notion+of+%C2%91situatedness%C2%92%3A+situated+cognition%2C+situated+action%2C+situated+learning%2C+and+the+concept+of+autopoiesis+as+an+organizing+principle.+Situatedness+changes+the+way+we+think+about+how+knowledge+is+created+(learning)+and+applied+(action).+In+this+light+knowledge+management+changes+its+meaning+from+managing+the+knowledge+of+an+organization+to+managing+the+situation+in+which+learning+happens.+Collaboration+and+participation+become+the+key+management+principles.+In+this+paper+we+propose+that+Brahms+(Business+Re-design+Agent-based+Holistic+Modeling+System)%2C+an+activity-based+multi-agent+modeling+environment%2C+allows+us+to+model+knowledge+in+situated+actions+and+learning+in+human+activities.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F444%2F1%2F146.htm&rft.identifier=++Sierhuis%2C+M.+and+Clancey%2C+William+J.++(1997)+Knowledge%2C+Practice%2C+Activities+and+People.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F444%2F