Authors:
            
                    Jernej Agrež
                    
                        
                    
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                    Nadja Damij
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Experiential Learning, Community Learning, Floods, Loosely Coupled Systems.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Artificial Intelligence
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                        Business Process Management
                    ; 
                        e-Business
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                        Enterprise Engineering
                    ; 
                        Enterprise Information Systems
                    ; 
                        KM Strategies and Implementations
                    ; 
                        Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
                    ; 
                        Knowledge-Based Systems
                    ; 
                        Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
                    ; 
                        Symbolic Systems
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                In this position paper, we focus on the learning issues of the flood-endangered communities, situated in the Lower Sava Valley. The main issue and position expose characteristics of the loosely coupled system in the context of learning and knowledge management. We detected learning anomalies within the assessed flood response system, which we selected as a research example of the loosely coupled system. Therefore, we conducted a statistical analysis of the flood data and designed a fuzzy knowledge evaluation system, to be able to grade community learning.  Finally, we designed learning improvement mechanism that would significantly contribute to the flood response system effectiveness and higher community self-reliance and flood resilience.