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Chapter 4
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2470-2.ch004
INTRODUCTION
In recent years, several Web-based collaborative
knowledge management systems, also called
Social Web, such as wikis, blogs, discussion fo-
rums, and online networking sites have become
increasingly popular and have attracted a large
number of people to participate actively in con-
tent creation and knowledge sharing in various
domains. However, the current state of the existing
systems confront with several important problems:
Krissada Maleewong
Shinawatra University, Thailand
Chutiporn Anutariya
Shinawatra University, Thailand
Vilas Wuwongse
Asian Institute Technology, Thailand
Enabling Intelligence in Web-
Based Collaborative Knowledge
Management System
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an approach to enhance various intelligent services of a Web-based collaborative
knowledge management system. The proposed approach applies the two widely-used argumentation
technologies, namely IBIS and Toulmin’s argumentation schemes, to structurally capture the delibera-
tion and collaboration occurred during the consensual knowledge creation process. It employs RDF and
OWL as its underlying knowledge representation language with well-defned semantics and reasoning
mechanisms. Users can easily create knowledge using a simple corresponding graphical notation with
machine-processable semantics. Derivation of implicit knowledge, similar concept discovery, as well as
semantic search, are also enabled. In addition, the proposed approach incorporates the term suggestion
function for assisting users in the knowledge creation process by computing the relevance score for each
relevant term, and presenting the most relevant terms to users for possible term reusing or equivalence
concepts mapping. To ensure the knowledge consistency, a logical mechanism for validating conficting
arguments and contradicting concepts is also developed. Founded on the proposed approach, a Web-
based system, namely ciSAM, is implemented and available for public usage.