Exploring the interplay between domain-independent and domain-specific concepts in computer-supported collaboration

  • Authors:

  • Christina E. Evangelou;Nikos Karacapilidis

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial Management and Information Systems Lab, MEAD, University of Patras, Rio-Patras, Greece;Industrial Management and Information Systems Lab, MEAD, University of Patras, Rio-Patras, Greece

  • Venue:
  • KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Communities of practice need the appropriate means to collaborate in order to reach decisions by exploiting all possible knowledge resources. To address this issue, we have developed a web-based platform that enables members of such communities collaborate through carrying out well-structured argumentative discourses. Our approach comprises a variety of concepts, methods, models and techniques, deriving among others from the decision making, knowledge management and argumentation fields, and properly interweaves them with the aid of an ontology model. This paper explores the interplay of the domain-independent and domain-specific concepts coming from the above fields, and comments on their embodiment in the above platform. Our multidisciplinary approach provides the foundations for developing a platform for brainstorming and capturing of the organizational knowledge in order to augment teamwork in terms of knowledge elicitation, sharing and construction, thus enhancing decision quality.