PROMETHEUS: a web platform for supporting knowledge management in an environment based on experience factory

This paper presents a Knowledge Management System (KMS), called PROMETHEUS, which consists of a set of processes that constitute the Experience Factory (EF) and a platform that is the Knowledge Experience Base (KEB), which collects Knowledge Experience Packages (KEP). The KMS thus formed supports the formalization and packaging of knowledge and experience of producers and innovation transferors encouraging gradual explanation of tacit information of bearers of knowledge to facilitate the transfer. The KMS enables the cooperative production of KEP between different authors contributing to the production of KEP and users of the latter. The paper describes the approach outlined in the PROMETHEUS Project and the precautions taken in the design of KEP to ensure that: the experience contained in it, even when collected through projects executed by many person-years, can be quickly acquired by the user, contains the tools to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge innovation support to transfer.