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A Fuzzy Decision Making Method for Preventing the Loss of Knowledge in Nuclear Organizations

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Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance (AHFE 2020)

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Appropriate technical expertise and experience, along with a strong safety culture, must be developed and kept available throughout the nuclear technology life cycle. For organizations using nuclear technology, the ability to take safe decisions and actions can be affected by knowledge gaps or knowledge loss. For preventing the loss of knowledge in nuclear organizations, it is important to identify the barriers or critical factors that affect the success of the knowledge management (KM) process. From the perspective of the nuclear organizations, no systematic structure exists on characterizing a set of critical success factors (CSFs) for KM. Furthermore, there are no appropriate models that can satisfactorily assess the CSFs and fully solve the subjectivity of KM assessment. In this context, this work presents a fuzzy decision making method for preventing the loss of knowledge in nuclear organizations using CSFs able to identify the barriers that affect the KM.

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  1. Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear, Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jaqueline Vianna, Paulo V. R. Carvalho & Claudio H. S. Grecco

  2. Laboratório de Lógica e Matemática Fuzzy (LabFuzzy), COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jaqueline Vianna, Paulo V. R. Carvalho, Carlos A. N. Cosenza & Claudio H. S. Grecco

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Vianna, J., Carvalho, P.V.R., Cosenza, C.A.N., Grecco, C.H.S. (2020). A Fuzzy Decision Making Method for Preventing the Loss of Knowledge in Nuclear Organizations. In: Arezes, P., Boring, R. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50946-0_23

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