Title: Knowledge management-based approach for inter-organisational collaborative processes modelling

Authors: Kahina Semar-Bitah; Kamel Boukhalfa

Addresses: Department of Computer, Laboratory Networks and Systems LRS, University Badji Mokhtar Annaba (UBMA), Annaba, Algeria; Div. Telecom, Advanced Information Systems SIA, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées (CDTA), Algers, Algeria ' Department of Computer, Laboratory of Computer Systems LSI, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algers, Algeria

Abstract: Nowadays the current market is in evolution, organisations must work together to ensure their survival. The collaboration partners are heterogeneous and incompatible, which makes the interaction and exchange between them complicated, and requires new technologies to support them. This paper presents a knowledge management-based approach for inter-organisational collaborative processes IOCP modelling. Ontologies represent an effective solution to deal with the heterogeneity and incompatibility problems in different domains. Collaboration ontologies provide a way to promote its modelling. In this domain, there are only few ontologies which cover it partially. The developed system is composed of three part: 1) gathering and formalising collaborative network knowledge; 2) storing knowledge in a knowledge-based to infer the collaborative process model; 3) the IOCP modelling. The heart of this knowledge-based system is a modular ontology conceived to cover as maximum as possible the collaboration domain. The proposed system was conceived as a part of a collaborative platform allowing the modelling of the IOCP in a generic way.

Keywords: inter-organisational collaboration; organisation; collaborative processes; knowledge-based; KB; modular ontology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2021.113285

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2021 Vol.36 No.3, pp.327 - 354

Received: 11 Feb 2018
Accepted: 04 Dec 2018
Published online: 26 Feb 2021 *

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