An Ontology-centered Approach for Designing an Interactive Competence Management System for IT Companies

Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction - Year 2009, Vol 2, Issue 1

Abstract

The paper presents an ontology-centered approach for designing an interactive competence management system for IT companies. This type of approach helps to shift the focus from a function-oriented, tool-centric view, towards a semantic-oriented view. In the paper are covered subjects as: ontologies definitions, generic architecture of the competence management system (CMS), structure of CMS ontology, building and working the ontology (integrity and inference of the ontology, knowledge acquisition, conceptualization phase, querying types of concepts). The advantage of using an ontology-based system is the possibility of the identification of new relations among concepts based on inferences starting from the existing knowledge. The user can choose to query instances of one type of concept, based on the relations that are displayed for him/her in a dropping menu. In addition to choosing relations modeled in the ontology, the user may also query inferred relations that are not explicitly stored in the knowledge base. Other search type is browsing the ontology. The skeleton of the ontology is seen as a tree with nodes and hyperlinks that point to other concepts or instances. Starting from base-concepts, the user can get specific information about any instance or concept. The paper also presents some use-cases, conclusions and further developments.

Authors and Affiliations

Cristina Niculescu, Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu

Keywords

Related Articles

A User Centered Approach in Designing a Career Decision Making Assistant

The present paper analyses the results of a user need research during the development of an intelligent assistant to support decisions in choosing the specialty in higher education. Our research was composed of multiple...

Online Communities: Approaches, Principles, Dilemmas

Online communities mediated by computer facilitate the gathering and the group interaction throughout social support, information and the feeling of belonging. The social interaction areas created by technologies that al...

Labview Interfaces Used To Generate The Waveforms And Data Files Specific Of Electrical Switching Devices Tests

The paper presents some aspects of activity in laboratory for testing the power electrical switching devices and electrical equipment. The main elements of assemblies made for testing, physical quantities measured and re...

A Microformats-based Tool for Personal Data Management

We found ourselves in a time when we experience a real blooming of the social side of the Web, by having more and more (apparently) separated entities communicate together. In order to be able to communicate easily and t...

Didactics in Assisted Instruction

Currently, cognitive development is based on diversifying activities which depend on use of personal computers. In terms of technology, the modern world is constantly developing, with its systems becoming more efficient,...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP28782
  • DOI -
  • Views 358
  • Downloads 9

How To Cite

Cristina Niculescu, Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu (2009). An Ontology-centered Approach for Designing an Interactive Competence Management System for IT Companies. Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction, 2(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-28782