| Objectives: |
The overall aim of the research is to enhance support of the networked enterprise in successful, timely creation of and participation in collaborative VOs by providing an infrastructure and services to discover, capture, deliver and apply knowledge relevant to collaboration creation and operation. The infrastructure must facilitate the sharing of knowledge within an enterprise, between potential and actual VO partner enterprises, and across industrial sectors, whilst allowing, and indeed actively promoting, the protection of individual and shared commercial interests in operating knowledge and expertise and IPR. This overall, project-level, aim of SYNERGY is decomposed into the following groups of objectives:
- Semantic ontology-based modelling of knowledge structures about collaborative working:
- Identify, with end-user partners and others, the range, scope and content of knowledge relevant to collaborative working, including the identification and abstraction of collaboration patterns for the learning enterprise and VO.
- Provide an ontological and semantic infrastructure to permit shared understanding of, and contribution to such knowledge, formally representing knowledge needed for the inter-organisational networking.
- Include within the semantic infrastructure capabilities for the assessment of collaboration risk and propagation of risk factors through collaboration projects, and for assessment of enterprise collaboration capabilities.
- Development of a service-oriented self-adaptive architecture for the SYNERGY knowledge-based collaboration services:
- Define a service oriented semantically-based inter-organisational knowledge management architecture, to foster collaboration between enterprises, supporting best practice collaboration patterns, enabling automatic extension of knowledge.
- Develop software tools for the definition, refinement, composition, adaptation and utilisation of collaboration patterns.
- Ensure the architecture is automatically self-adaptive, able to learn continually from usage (experience), including identification of new knowledge sources.
- Develop a set of web based services for knowledge discovery and acquisition, a distributed knowledge repository specific to, or shared by, an individual enterprise, VO, or industry sector; and a collaboration moderator detecting potential collaboration decision conflicts and opportunities.
- Integrate the generated software components within a flexible service-based software framework that will support the formation and operation of VOs.
- Define a methodology for developing and applying knowledge-based collaboration services which may be of value to individual partners or groups of partners within a VO.
- Pilot test the SYNERGY software tools for the definition, refinement, composition, adaptation and utilisation of collaboration patterns. This will enable abstraction of new knowledge of the process of collaboration to be generated from current and past behaviour (successful or otherwise) of enterprises, VOs or industrial sectors.
- Evaluate all resulting services and demonstrators through use-cases identified and elaborated by end-user partners.
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| Consortium: |
- Coventry University, UK (GB) - Coordinator
- CIM College, Serbia (RS)
- Douglas Connect, Switzerland (CH)
- EBM Websourcing, France (FR)
- ForschungszentrumInformatikan der Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany (DE)
- Institute of Computer & Communications Systems (GR)
- Loughborough University (GB)
- Technology Application Network (GB)
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FInES Cluster (2012) Research Roadmap 2025 v2.0
