A Workflow Ontology to support Knowledge Management in a Group’s organizational structure

Authors

  • Mario Anzures-García Benemérita Universidad autónoma de Puebla
  • Luz A. Sánchez-Gálvez
  • Miguel J. Hornos
  • Patricia Paderewski-Rodríguez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-1-2781

Keywords:

Group’s organizational structure, Workflow, Ontology, Workflow Ontology, Base of Knowledge.

Abstract

In CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), managing the group’s organizational structure allows to control how the group members communicate, collaborate, and coordinate, to achieve a common goal, in order to benefit an organization or a community. Consequently, establishing an appropriate model of this structure’s management is very important, as it can be used as a guide for implementing these kinds of systems. This modeling must be flexible enough, so that it can conform itself to changes within the group and to adjust to the different working styles of several groups, as well as to formally support a base of knowledge; helping to eradicate any ambiguity or redundancy. Therefore, this modeling must formally provide a knowledge representation in order to specify the elements and to control the set of orderly steps on an organizational structure. Thus, a workflow ontology to control such a structure is proposed in this paper. Since, the workflow manages and controls the process, via a set of steps ordered and executed by different organization entities, whereas the ontology specifies the domain of knowledge through concepts, relations, axioms, and instances in a formal, explicit, way. A case of study, to demonstrate the knowledge management of the group’s organizational structure, through workflow ontology is shown.

Author Biography

Mario Anzures-García, Benemérita Universidad autónoma de Puebla

Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación de la Benemérita Mario Anzures García has been Professor since 1995 at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación (FCC) of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences, whose topics are framed within the research interests such as architectural and ontological modeling for the development of collaborative applications, as well as software-development methodologies based on design patterns, semantic web technologies, and artificial intelligence. He is actually working on several research projects. He belongs to the Latin American Research Network on Concurrent, Distributed, and Parallel Technologies. He has been the coordinator of Information Technology Engineering at the FCC since its creation back in 2012

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Published

2018-03-30

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018): Thematic Issue on Language & Knowledge Engineering (Guest Editors: D. Pinto, D. Vilariño, B. Beltrán)

Section

Articles of the Thematic Issue

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