Is an ontology representation formalism, according to which an ontology (A) is defined as: A = (O, Q, D, C) where: O is a set of object classes (“classes”), Q is a set of class attributes (“attributes”), D is a set of attribute domains (“domains”), and C is a set of constraints.
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Knowledge Management in Collaborative Business Networks
Alexander Smirnov (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS), Russia), Tatiana Levashova (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS), Russia), Nikolay Shilov (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS), Russia), and Alexey Kashevnik (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS), Russia)
Copyright: © 2014
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch124
Abstract
Current worldwide economy conditions cause increasing popularity of collaborative business networks. Dealing with multiple organizations and multiple processes within a complicated network, identifying and locating a member that has a responsibility and/or a competence in a particular part of the network can be a laborious, time-consuming process. Knowledge management technology is aimed to assist in solving this problem. It requires intelligent interoperability support between information systems of collaborative network members. A presented approach is based on the context management technology. It allows allows describing the collaborative network at a particular moment. The context includes such current situation properties as time, location, competence profiles of collaborative network members, etc. The competence profiles allow formalizing and sharing member's knowledge and competencies.