526 Big Data Computing
of information acquisition is the application of business intelligence meth-
ods to data of relevance to the problem to be solved, for example, market
basket data for a decision prioritization problem related to product lifecycle
management. Learning, in this framework, is a procedure for generating and
testing hypotheses relevant to the problem to be solved. Learning comprises
dedicated empirical and even foundational research. Knowledge production
by learning is closely related to innovation.
The key task of knowledge production in the overall knowledge life cycle
is producing codied knowledge claims. A knowledge claim is not just a
hypothesis, whereas it is a specic approach consisting of elements of knowl-
edge su ...