A brief introduction to tacit knowledge and the current research topics

Computational awareness (CA) is proposed to give awareness capability to a machine. For implementing CA, a direct way is to simulate human awareness. Since tacit knowledge is an important component for human awareness, this work tries to give a brief introduction of the current research topics. First, several consensuses that have been achieved are identified. Then we identify three research topics, including tacit knowledge sharing, tacit knowledge quantization and tacit knowledge generation. Finally, in an attempt to provide a mathematical definition, we present an abstract computational model of tacit knowledge. By this work, we hope to contribute to the research community by clarifying the state-of-the-art of tacit knowledge.