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The new product development process, in its early phases, congregates knowledge from diverse domains and sources, spread among specialists that usually are not aware of each other’s research interests. This work presents a tool designed to make the establishment of new communities or teams easier. The tool organizes their informal vocabulary into formal domain categories, in order to correlate them, and advises its users of potential networks they could belong to. An approach based on ontologies and machine learning is used to structure and make knowledge acquisition / retrieval, together with agents that cooperate and coordinate the access to the knowledge. The tool automatically updates its knowledge base relieving the user from tasks she/he is unfamiliar with. Initial experiments demonstrated the potential of this kind of tool. A test case is being developed encompassing members of a scientific network in the manufacturing area. Results will be analyzed envisaging its broader use and application to different knowledge domains.
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Nabuco, O., Koyama, M.F., Pereira, F.E.D., Drira, K. (2004). Finding Manufacturing Expertise Using Ontologies and Cooperative Agents. In: Bramer, M., Devedzic, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 154. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8151-0_11
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