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ABSTRACT: Organizations need to overcome your competitors to remain in the market more quickly. The innovation provides a strategic advantage for organizations, and benefit society in the form of creating new knowledge and technology diffusion. But, costs and risks required for R and D limit the participation of companies and lead to failure many innovation projects. The collaboration between organizations, which have a common goal, shares costs and risks and increases the chances of innovation project successful. In addition, collaboration allows for many organizations to develop projects that would be impossible to do alone. This paper is a study on Brazilian companies' metrics and indicators of innovation processes obtained in the Technological Innovation Survey - PINTEC. It examines the extent of collaboration affect in the innovation process and suggests, through the use of knowledge taxonomies, the creation of innovation networks as a solution to various difficulties of organizations in their innovation processes.
Information Society (i-Society), 2010 International Conference on; 07/2010
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ABSTRACT: Sources of alternative, clean and smart energies are a demand on our modern world. And as a design project, collaboration and knowledge management are elements that improve the work on multidisciplinary teams. This work describes a collaborative project to construct a Brazilian solid oxide fuel cell, its problems and the solution created to enable a collaborative work on a national context.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009. CSCWD 2009. 13th International Conference on; 05/2009
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents preliminary study results of a prototype architecture created with the purpose of using a domain-driven approach to shorten the development of software projects. It is accepted that domain based development is playing an important role on IT projects today. The following discussion presents a way of using different project sites to work together and establish a shared development environment. Using a set of standards and theories such as BPM, MDA, SOA and Web Services, the proposed architecture indicates that, with the aid of standard and controlled techniques, it is possible to obtain significant gains on software scheduling and cost.
Innovations in Information Technology, 2008. IIT 2008. International Conference on; 01/2009
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ABSTRACT: In many group work situations, meetings take up a reasonable amount of time. Several techniques have been introduced to streamline meetings and reach conclusions faster, many of which place an individual in the role of meeting facilitator. Facilitation involves intervening to produce desired results. Thus, a facilitator should be able to identify certain group dynamics and act accordingly. In this paper, we present and electronic idea generation system based on thinkLets dynamics and designed to measure group dynamics. This information is provided to the facilitator so he or she can decide whether or not to intervene.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2008. CSCWD 2008. 12th International Conference on; 05/2008
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ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the generation of knowledge chains as a way of retaining the knowledge generated during the execution of a water resources project. To create new chains we are making use of the knowledge stored in project tasks, and the ontology technology. The ontology concepts associated with a task are converted into knowledge units, which are filled with all the information related to it. The ontology structure will be used to create the sequence of the knowledge chain that includes the units created. The new chain will be presented and must be validated by the author to be added to the environment knowledge chains base.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2008. CSCWD 2008. 12th International Conference on; 05/2008
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ABSTRACT: Pattern development for complex systems is a common practice nowadays. These patterns delineate the development of many systems, identifying behaviours and structures that can be re-used in several problems. Autonomic Data Killing Patterns represent a need when thinking about the final destination of data. Nowadays, the knowledge on data killing is as important as the knowledge on data storage. This work discusses this idea and shows patterns to deal with related issues. This approach can help organizations and people to control irrelevant data through the knowledge of different ways to eliminate them. The patterns are described using high- level Petri nets and active rules. This strategy allows to monitor and to act in the environment, an important characteristic of autonomic systems.
Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2008. ICAS 2008. Fourth International Conference on; 04/2008
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ABSTRACT: In scientific and engineering scenarios we can notice the predominance of explicit knowledge being manipulated and distributed, which makes recommender systems very useful in this environment. But along with a knowledge management approach this kind of system can support the organization in better identifying competences, help engage users in a continuous and dynamic knowledge exchange, and customize knowledge dissemination as much as possible. In this work we detail a collaborative recommender system which is used in a Knowledge Management Environment for Scientific and Engineering contexts; we show how this approach can be aimed at a KM process and how this approach can deal with other kinds of knowledge used in research centers and universities.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: It may be very difficult to design in advance a global system model which accomplishes all organizational unit idiosyncrasies in complex organizations dispersed across large geographical regions. In this work, we propose the use of our Coppeer framework for agent based peer-to-peer application development to implement an environment in which distributed systems can be collaboratively and incrementally built. The key points of the approach are the use of semi-structured documents as data model, the partitioning of system code in several loosely coupled agents and the use of ontologies to conciliate differences in organizational unit vocabularies.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: In large communities, finding experts or partners can sometimes be hard. Normally, to find new partners one asks for recommendations from known acquaintances. This is a form of social navigation, whereby one searches for others in the network, who might fit required profiles. Time is an important factor in this type of situation, as needs, interests and expertise levels change rapidly. This paper presents a peer-to-peer system to assist social network navigation and search. It builds user profiles through an analysis of ongoing activities that takes time into account, and matches these to find opportunities for collaboration.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: To complement the learning process and promote continuous learning, this paper proposes an environment that uses knowledge management techniques to improve the learning process for building personal knowledge through the exchange of knowledge chains in learning communities. Here we are using the generic model for the knowledge management cycle proposed by Stollenwerk The processes that are part of this model are: 1) knowledge identification; 2) knowledge capture; 3) knowledge selection and validation; 4) knowledge organization and storage; 5) knowledge sharing; 6) knowledge application and 7) creation of knowledge. The use of knowledge management became important in this work because it gave a theoretical foundation to the knowledge chains learning process specification.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: Knowledge is something that we're always seeking, but it is unthinkable that a person, with one's common tasks of the day, could take the time to follow people around and ask them about a certain type of knowledge one is interested in. However, imagine if we could share it with many people, even those unknown? Imagine if we didn't have to go one by one, asking them about common interests? Our gain would be huge. Not only in terms of time, but also in terms of gathered information. It is to fill this gap that the Mobile Exchange of Knowledge (MEK) concept came to life, so like its implications, which involve, in a mobile way, the interchange of knowledge between people who possess the same interests. Some issues like ad-hoc networks, social networks, location prediction and distributed knowledge management are also related with the MEK concept. However, to verify how effective our idea is, we conducted an experiment in the geographical space of an university in Brazil, where we analyzed the movements of students and also their interest and willingness to share them.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: Customer relationship management -CRM -is a broad term that can cover every mode of customer interaction. This concept has been widely used in business language, enabling companies to gain more knowledge about their customers which, in its turn, can be used to improve marketing and sales targeting, improving their results. University and research institutions (URIs), as any other organizations, also need to cater to the needs of their clients, which may be: society in general, their students, researchers and collaborators; other institutions -of a research or commercial nature with which they interact (supplying data, results from research work, consultancy work, and the execution of partnerships) -or governments that make use of their teaching practices and results from their research work. So, this work is a CRM proposal for URIs, studying the differences between the academic/scientific and business world and proposing an environment to manage all kinds of relationships in the academic and scientific scenario.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2007. CSCWD 2007. 11th International Conference on; 05/2007
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ABSTRACT: In project teams, having an unique vocabulary and a common understanding about terms is essential to the success of the project. This issue especially disturbs a design project, which has a multidisciplinary team and must consist of people with specific and different knowledge, from diverse domains, to execute special activities. Negotiation arises from this context as a process for the construction of consensus. The goal of this work is to present a model of negotiation to obtain the consensus of meanings, based on models of business negotiation, and consequently, deal with conflicts and the multiplicity of understandings of a concept, making this negotiation a way for creating value for all agents involved
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on; 06/2006
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents SRST, a tool designed to support knowledge management and collaboration activities of the student-supervisor relationship that arise during the development of a graduate thesis. In universities, graduate students account for the greatest part of the research work force, and are usually in close collaboration with their supervisors. Most student-supervisor interaction can be characterized as a form of knowledge management. SRST unites these concepts in a single and original tool and deals with four of the elements related to a thesis: "ideas", "tasks", "discussions", and "documents"
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on; 06/2006
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ABSTRACT: Decentralized projects, where several organizations come together to work on a joint project, are quickly becoming the norm, due to increased networking and distribution. Subcontracting and consulting lead to the creation of more flexible, less hierarchical structures. In these networked structures, partners are often considered as peers and the group has the flexibility to restructure itself according to its needs. In this paper, we present a study of a decentralized software research, design and development group, and discuss its needs. A large amount of time is spent with articulation and maintaining partners up-to-date, which suggests that appropriate awareness support might facilitate the group's activities
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on; 06/2006
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ABSTRACT: In this paper we consider a process which complements the learning process for building personal knowledge through the exchange of knowledge chains. This approach consists in the partial automatization of the process of creating knowledge chains, through the use of the technology from agents, ontologies and data mining. The agents will monitor all media used by the learner, and will classify its content using an ontology. From there, we want to create and recommend a chain to the learner. This point became important when we observed that the learners weren't motivated to create their chains, which, normally, takes a lot of effort
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on; 06/2006
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ABSTRACT: In this work, we first present a model of emergent design which allows a community of designers to collectively translate a set of requirement specifications into a completed design. Then, we describe the COPPEER framework, an environment for developing and running collaborative peer-to-peer applications which directly supports the main requirements elicited in our proposal
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on; 06/2006
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ABSTRACT: The activities executed in the environment planning process are extremely dependent on the knowledge of their performers. Thus, knowledge management initiatives are very important in these activities. One of the possibilities for improving knowledge flow is to explore past experiences, resulting from the modeling and execution of previous decisions. This work presents Thoth, a system which aims at knowledge reuse in the environmental decision process, during the planning, design and execution of activities. This approach is integrated with a CBR approach, also described in this paper, with workflow systems and the use of ontologies.
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2005. Proceedings. Sixteenth International Workshop on; 09/2005
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ABSTRACT: With the grown availability of large and specialized online ontologies, the questions about the integration of independently developed ontologies have become even more important. To facilitate the ontology integration process, this paper presents an ontology integration support module, that promotes the creation of new ontologies by reusing others. The hypothesis is that the ontology designer achieves a reduction in the time dedicated to create a new ontology, as well as obtain ontologies with better quality. The experimental use of the prototype developed showed evidence that the hypothesis can be confirmed.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on; 06/2005
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ABSTRACT: The activities executed in the scientific environment are extremely dependent on knowledge from their performers. Thus, knowledge management initiatives are very important in this environment. One of the possibilities for improving the knowledge flow is to explore past experiences, resulting from the modeling and execution of previous scientific activities and handled by a workflow management system. This work presents Thoth, a system which aims at knowledge reuse in the scientific environment, during the planning, design and execution of scientific activities. This approach is integrated with a CBR approach, also described in this paper, with workflow systems and the use of ontologies.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on; 06/2005
