VCDECIS —
VCE Decision Support System

The ambitious goal of VCDECIS is the establishment of a well organized system which supports the experts and engineers in all tasks during the assessment of structures based on Ambient Vibration Monitoring.

 

Real expertise, as required in structural dynamics, is characterized by a combination of complexity and a short period of validity. With the development of VCDECIS the Vienna Consulting Engineers are willing to realize professional knowledge management based on the company's knowledge in Ambient Vibration Monitoring. Therefore the BRIMOS® technology and experience of former BRIMOS® projects are integrated to the system. This Decision Support System should provide all necessary tools and knowledge for research and decision making within the scientific procedure of vibration based condition assessment on structures.

The term Decision Support System (DSS), Knowledge Management System (KMS) and Knowledgebase (KB) designate an approach to improving organizational outcomes and organizational learning by introducing a range of specific processes and practices for identifying and capturing knowledge, know-how, expertise and other intellectual capital and for making such knowledge assets available for transfer and reuse across the organization.

  • A key distinction made by Knowledge Management practitioners is between tacit and explicit knowledge:
    tacit knowledge requires systems which can access knowledge resources to learn best practice, enables the communication between people and indicates context between knowledge and its sources;
  • explicit knowledge which can be codified in documents requires a person-to-document-approach such as Document Management Systems and Databases combined with search tools.

 

VCDECIS enables to convert internalized tacit knowledge into explicit codified knowledge in order to share it. On the other hand, individuals and groups can internalize and make personally meaningful explicit knowledge once they retrieve it from its codified form.

For more information see www.vcdecis.net