Authors:
Ivonne Schröter
1
;
Jacob Krüger
2
;
Philipp Ludwig
3
;
Marcus Thiel
3
;
Andreas Nürnberger
3
and
Thomas Leich
4
Affiliations:
1
Otto-von-Guericke-University and METOP GmbH, Germany
;
2
Otto-von-Guericke-University and Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
;
3
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Germany
;
4
METOP GmbH and Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Keyword(s):
Enterprise Information System, Empirical Study, Survey, User Questionnaire, Requirements Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Operational Research
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Strategic Decision Support Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The number of new research documents and patents published each year is steadily increasing. Despite this
development, identifying innovative documents in a timely manner has received only little attention in research.
Nevertheless, this use case is important for companies that strive to keep up with current innovations
in their field. However, since existing solutions do not take context and background of the particular firm or
researcher into account, they fall short in supporting the user in his search for suitable documents. In this
paper, we describe an industrial case study we conducted within sheet-metal working companies and related
research institutes in Germany. We i) report a qualitative study on innovation research, ii) provide a list of
features that industrial researchers demanded, and iii) discuss implementation challenges for systems that support
interactive retrieval of innovative documents. Based on the initial results, we argue that existing systems
fall s
hort to provide an integrated workflow. Overall, we discuss how to implement such a system and the
corresponding problems.
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