Towards a Semantic-Aware Collaborative Working Environment

Authors

  • María A. Martínez Carreras Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia
  • Juan M. Marín Pérez Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia
  • Jorge Bernal Bernabé Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia
  • José M. Alcaraz Calero Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia
  • Gregorio Martínez Pérez Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia
  • Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Univeersidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia

Keywords:

Collaborative working environments, semantic web, ontologies, interoperability, SOA

Abstract

Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs) enable an efficient collaboration between professionals, specially those settled in different locations of a company or stakeholders from different companies. This can be of great help for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as an effective way to share information. However, it can be difficult for SMEs to have access to a fully integrated CWE providing different tools (e.g., videoconferencing, instant messaging, etc.). Currently, they may define a CWE as a combination of heterogeneous and non-integrated tools which are not able to share information between them. An integrated CWE would provide SMEs with the necessary means to collaborate, making information exchange easier.

 

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Published

2013-01-24

How to Cite

Martínez Carreras, M. A., Marín Pérez, J. M., Bernal Bernabé, J., Alcaraz Calero, J. M., Martínez Pérez, G., & Gómez Skarmeta, A. F. (2013). Towards a Semantic-Aware Collaborative Working Environment. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, 30(1), 7–30. Retrieved from https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/1299

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Special Section Articles