Competence Ontology for Network Building

Abstract

The overall objective of this research is to engineer a decision aid approach to support the identification of collaborative networks which could then constitute potential Virtual Breeding Environments. An interesting aspect of this approach is working with internet and thus considered an "open universe" of potential partners. In this perspective, the paper puts the focus on extracting essential facets of firm competences using an ontology approach. The method followed to construct the ontology is presented as well as a brief introduction on its use. This work is part of an on going project to produce cognitive aids to support decisions when seeking to form partnerships and establish VBEs

UNICOMP: Identification of Enterprise Competencies to Build Collaborative Networks

“…Due to the complexity of the notion of competence, the identification of competencies through website information requires implementing semantic mechanisms [2]. The approach presented here uses ontology and lexical patterns applied to the specific area of mechanical industry.…”

“…The formalization of the ontology has been described in [1] [2]. Consequently, we just provide here a brief summary and the rest of the paper focuses on formalization and use of patterns for competence identification.…”

“…Class activation: the module of class activation uses the various occurrences of patterns, located by the precedent module, to validate or not the presence of identifiers from the "competence traces" ontology. This validation called "activation" is realised by the algorithm PCA (Pattern and Classes Activation) which uses a specific protocol presented in [2]. Each class activation is generally based on the use of several patterns identified previously.…”

“…The web is considered as the fist information on business partners. In previous publications [1] [2], the authors explained the decision aid approach based on the extraction and use of key characteristic information on companies, concerning their activity fields and internal competencies. This information on company competencies will be further used, at a second stage, to generate new knowledge on the potential structure of VBEs.…”

Collaborative Decision-making Support System to Enhance Competencies within Enterprise Networks

“…Under a mainly static view on competences, several articles show that the management of competencies is a key issue for Virtual Breeding Environments, (Demsar et al, 2007;Ermilova and Afsarmanesh, 2007;Hajlaoui et al, 2009). Ermilova and Afsarmanesh (2007) provide a good example of a declarative approach of competencies.…”