A virtual network of excellence (NoE) established in June 2004, consisting of 27 partners (more than 200 researchers) from 16 different countries that decided to work together and build a knowledge community in the field of design and manufacturing research (www.vrl-kcip.org). VRL-KCiP is financed by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme.
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Ontology and Expertise Map Building in Virtual Organizations
Gila Molcho (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), Anca Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania), and Nada Matta (University of Technology of Troyes, France)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch149
Abstract
When organizations collaborate in virtual space, a common frame of reference, or at least a common terminology, is necessary for human-to-human, humanto- machine, and machine-to-machine communication. Similarly, within a core organization characterized by distributed collaboration between remote sites and research or production units, a common understanding of reference terms is indispensable. Yet this common understanding of terms is often implicit at best and frequently not present at all. Misunderstandings between distributed team members and faulty translations of software applications contribute to the rising costs of interoperability in virtual, distributed organizations. Indeed, the growing implementation of distributed software agents necessitates developing and adopting a shared terminology and syntax for efficient and effective interoperability.