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The ALTER-NATIVA knowledge management approach

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Nowadays, it is commonly known that information systems need an agile capability of handling knowledge. To accomplish this, systems have to have a formal knowledge representation ability supported by specific and advanced reasoning features. This research work proposes a knowledge management approach with the purpose to gather, model and consume community knowledge for specific recommendation commitments. Such approach is accomplished by a semantic lexicon alignment between the various community knowledge assets, to facilitate collaborations establishment between people and systems in an interoperable fashion. Thus, a knowledge base supported by a thesaurus able to represent all the metadata needed to represent and characterize the various community stakeholders’ resources is proposed. The thesaurus represents the lexicon in the domain, which in the ALTER-NATIVA systems is mostly used to support the various e-Learning elements (e.g. courses) and users categorization, sustained by synchronization features to facilitate a constant update of its information. A set of services designed to recommend specific resources in relation to a determined profile of user is provided. Additionally, a discussion about how the ALTER-NATIVA knowledge management approach can be applied to industrial environments is presented.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement: ALTER-NATIVA Project (DCIALA/19.09.01/10/21526/245-575/ALFA III (2010) 88). Authors would like to thank all the participants in the project that would have contributed to this work results. Additionally, they are highly indebted to CALE, CAM and CA Communities for their contributions in the domain lexicon building. Finally, authors would also like to thank to all involved in the activities supporting the development of the CoSpaces Training System, namely the CoSpaces project community/members.

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  1. DEE/FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Joao Sarraipa & Catarina Marques-Lucena

  2. UNINOVA-GRIS, Centre of Technology and Systems, Caparica, Portugal

    Joao Sarraipa & Catarina Marques-Lucena

  3. Institute of Informatics and Applications (IIiA), University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Silvia Baldiris & Ramón Fabregat

  4. Universidade Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

    Silvana Aciar

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Sarraipa, J., Marques-Lucena, C., Baldiris, S. et al. The ALTER-NATIVA knowledge management approach. J Intell Manuf 27, 83–99 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-014-0929-0

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