A pragmatic approach to conceptual negotiation support

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Sousa, C (Author) Other; Pereira, C (Author) Other; António Lucas Soares (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: ICEIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Pages: 349-354

14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2012

Wroclaw, 28 June 2012 through 1 July 2012

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Authenticus ID: P-008-5Y9

Abstract (EN): Collaborative conceptualisation processes are pervasive to most technical and professional activities, but are seldom addressed explicitly due to the lack of theoretical and practical methods and tools to support it. However, it seems not to be a popular research topic in knowledge representation or its sub-areas such as ontology engineering. Our view is that collaboration between stakeholders for specifying an ontology should be addressed at the conceptual, semi-formal level, in order to foster a collective learning of the domain and reaching agreements about its representation. We developed a method to support conceptual integration based in the conceptual blending theory - ColBlend - and implemented it in a collaborative modelling environment. This "conceptual modelling environment - conceptME" supports teams of specialist and facilitators in eliciting conceptual structures with the help of collaborative model editing and terminology services. Conceptual integration and agreements are achieved through the ColBlend method. This paper overviews ColBlend and ConceptME and describes in detail a test case.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific