In this paper we present an innovative approach to develop a domain ontology in collaborative fashion. This approach is synthesized in a groupware application which is called Co-Protege, a set of plug-ins which extends Protege. This approach is innovative because...
The knowledge-intensive nature of business innovation paradigms requires advanced method for managing the informative resources in the scope of an enterprise, especially in a virtual enterprise. In this context, a challenging task is to support the participation of workers to elicit/codify their...
We present a wiki-based collaborative environment for the semi-automatic incremental building of ontologies. The system relies on an existing platform, which has been extended with a component for terminology extraction from domain-specific textual corpora and...
This paper presents observations from engineering ontology design sessions. We followed the entire design process of a group of engineers building an ontology for root cause analysis to be applied to petroleum pump failure diagnosis. The group was composed of experts...
In the actual competitive context, doing business globally has become critical to the survival of most enterprises. To achieve it, enterprises require the establishment of cooperation agreements among each other. Thus, there is a demand for intelligent solutions capable of reinforcing partnerships...
In today's world, many real-life processes are either improved by new sophisticated ICT technologies or altered. Collaboration, as a respected method in learning, is such a process. Lately there is ongoing research and a lot of innovations in the area of collaborative learning. In this paper...
In our previous work we have presented a new model of on-line collaborative activity for building ontology. It enriches the list of activities that can be included in the course curriculum, and also, at the end, produces ontology for the course domain. Here, we will...
Aiming at the problem existing in building ontology, a model of reliability evaluation based on jena for multi-user collaborative building ontology is put forward from six dimensions, and adjustment of ontology is mainly discussed with the number and...
As ontology has become a convenient vehicle for domain knowledge and metadata, it is used for realizing information sharing at semantic level in geoscience. Building geo-ontology is a systematic engineering and requires collaborative work, while there is a lack of...
The development of citizens' and organizations' entrepreneurial capacity is a key policy objective of any country. The information required for monitoring development of curricula and learning activities fostering entrepreneurship as a competence is obtained from different data sources in different...