Currently, there is a great necessity in the organizations to support communication,
collaboration, and coordination—important aspects that characterize collaborative systems …

In CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), managing the group's organizational
structure allows to control how the group members communicate, collaborate, and …

Building ontologies in a collaborative and increasingly community-driven fashion has
become a central paradigm of modern ontology engineering. This understanding of …

This article focuses on an ontology construction for collaborative decision making. To do
this, a state of the art on collaborative decision-making, on ontology engineering and on …

The reuse of existing systems is an important objective of High Level Architecture (HLA)
based collaborative product development systems. However, in order to reuse an existing …

Abstract Knowledge integrated model (KIM) is regarded as an effective and critical way to
enhance efficiency of product collaborative development (PCD). However, it is much knotty …

Cooperative management is concerned with the management of networks and services
involving the cooperation of a number of human/organizational entities. One of the …

This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of ongoing research about semantic
approaches for Collaboration Engineering. The authors present a new ontology-based …

Ontology development is time and money consuming as well as an error-prone process; the
need for an embedded mechanism that evaluates quality and acceptance of the resultant …

Nowadays the current market is in evolution, organisations must work together to ensure
their survival. The collaboration partners are heterogeneous and incompatible, which makes …