Complementarity in Competence Management: Framework and Implementation

  • Nacer Boudjlida
  • Dong Cheng
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6426)

Abstract

Retrieving and composing individuals’ capabilities are the matter of several research fields, like competence-based management, human resources management, enterprise knowledge management systems, knowledge representation systems, etc. This work focuses on capability representation, discovery and composition in heterogeneous, and possibly distributed, knowledge representation environments. We define a capability representation language in Description Logics, and we propose approaches and algorithms for capability management and discovery. In addition, we outline how our proposals are implemented in a mediator-based prototype system.

Keywords

Capability discovery Heterogeneous Composite Answer Description Logics Mediation Mediator Federation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Nacer Boudjlida
    • 1
  • Dong Cheng
    • 1
  1. 1.Nancy University, UHP Nancy 1, LORIAFrance

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