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Automated structuring of company competencies in virtual organizations
Peter Ljubic, Nada Lavrac, Joel Plisson, Dunja Mladenić, Stefan Bollhalter and Mitja Jermol
In: SIKDD 2005 at multiconference IS 2005, 17 Oct 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
AbstractCreation of virtual organizations (VO) consists of several
steps. One of the early steps is finding organizations with
an appropriate expertise from a larger pool of
organizations, referred to as a VO Breeding
Environment (VBE). This requires a good knowledge of
each company’ competencies and thus emerges the need
for a structured representation facilitating the choice of
appropriate partners. Ontologies provide a structured
representation of knowledge that is potentially useful for
such a task. This paper proposes an approach to extract
semi-automatically the companies’ competencies from
their profile data and then structure the information in
the form of an ontology. This method is generally
applicable for competency modeling in collaborative
networked organizations. We present some existing
methods and tools for ontology creation, followed by the
proposed methodology to structure competencies,
applied to the Bodensee industry sub-cluster of the
Virtuelle Fabrik VO breeding environment. [Edit]
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