Authors:
Claudio Biancalana
;
Fabio Gasparetti
and
Alessandro Micarelli
Affiliation:
University Roma Tre, Italy
Keyword(s):
Knowledge management, Retrieval, Elicitation, Information, User modeling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Communities of Interest
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Each business company collects, produces and exploits for its activities and goals large amounts of information. Most of the times this knowledge makes the intellectual capital for creating value and innovation. Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at manipulating knowledge by storing and redistributing corporate information that are acquired from the organizations members. In this context, Virtual Enterprises (VE) plays a crucial role as not permanent alliances of enterprises joined together to share resources and skills in order to better respond to business opportunities. The representation and retrieval of distributed knowledge is an important feature that information systems must provide in order to obtain advantages from this kind of enterprises. PVE (Personalized Virtual Enterprise) is an ongoing research project for developing a system able to extract and let different business companies access to collective knowledge required to achieve particular shared goals. In this pape
r, we report the most important features of this system, especially in the context of distributed knowledge representation and retrieval.
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