Paper Info
Title
Boosting the Innovation Process in Collaborative Environments
Abstract
In this paper we propose a new architecture and methodology to define a collaborative environment aimed at supporting the innovation process. In the first part of this paper we analyse the data collected during an experiment for testing a collaborative environment and, in the second part, we propose an architecture to support and stimulate innovation processes. Our solution is based on three components, namely a (i) collaborative platform, (ii) a tool able to extract knowledge from shared documents, external data sources, and collaborative activities, and (iii) a recommender system. More specifically, we focus on how knowledge items are extracted from incoming knowledge flows to be proposed to a team, whose members are capable of proposing values for design issues and/or evaluating these choices from her own specific perspective. Furthermore, the aim of the proposed framework is not limited to the selection of relevant knowledge but, more broadly, on aligning the team on a restricted set of information items, producing a convergence of objectives that accelerates the kinetics of the collaborative work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SMC.2013.247
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Keywords
Field
DocType
knowledge item,collaborative activity,incoming knowledge,collaborative environments,new architecture,relevant knowledge,collaborative platform,collaborative work,external data source,collaborative environment,innovation process,recommender systems,groupware,information retrieval
Recommender system,Architecture,Collaborative filtering,Collaborative software,Computer science,Knowledge management,Boosting (machine learning),Innovation process,Knowledge acquisition
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
1
0.37
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valerio Bellandi117420.15
Paolo Ceravolo225244.89
Ernesto Damiani33911416.18
Fulvio Frati48520.71
Guido Lena Cota582.19
Jonatan Maggesi6223.14