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Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations

Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations

Joël Plisson, Peter Ljubic, Igor Mozetic, Nada Lavrac
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781599048857|ISBN10: 159904885X|EISBN13: 9781599048864
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch148
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Plisson, Joël, et al. "Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations." Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, edited by Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 1128-1135. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch148

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Plisson, J., Ljubic, P., Mozetic, I., & Lavrac, N. (2008). Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations. In G. Putnik & M. Cruz-Cunha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (pp. 1128-1135). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch148

Chicago

Plisson, Joël, et al. "Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations." In Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, edited by Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, 1128-1135. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch148

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Abstract

It is commonly agreed that networking, as a new way of collaboration, brings benefit to its members (Camarinha- Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2005). Collaboration implies communication and sharing of knowledge between network participants. However, as the participants may be from different fields or may follow a different problem solving philosophy, it is necessary to introduce a mechanism to share common understanding of the information and to agree on a controlled vocabulary used for communication. An ontology provides a representation of knowledge, which can be used and re-used, in order to facilitate the comprehension of concepts and relationships in a given domain, and the communication between different domain actors, by making the domain assumptions explicit. These actors can be either software agents or people that need to access or share a piece of information (Gruber, 1993).

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