The goal of K-NET is to explore the fundamental problem of how different services for managing social interactions in a networked enterprise can be used to improve knowledge and knowledge management services.
The key hypothesis of K-NET is that the context in which knowledge is collectively generated and managed can be used to enhance that knowledge for further use within the enterprise collaboration. By extracting the context in which knowledge is generated in a network (e.g., goals, teams, temporal and spatial aspects), it is possible to enrich this knowledge to use it more effectively in future work.
To explore this hypothesis, the project aims to solve several problems: How to efficiently monitor/track the process of generating/using knowledge in the network so that this knowledge can be reused for future work; how to extract context from this process; and how to enrich the generated knowledge with the extracted context to support knowledge sharing in future network activities.
By addressing these issues, K-NET will enable the development of new social interaction management services that allow effective monitoring of the processes of (collaborative) knowledge creation/use (especially with respect to the knowledge provided/present in “smart” devices), services to automatically extract context from such processes and enrich the knowledge, and KM services that apply the extracted context to support the use of this knowledge in the network, with a focus on knowledge representation services (taking into account, e.g. IPR and privacy issues, for example).
These services will open new business opportunities for networked companies to offer new products/services. K-NET will develop generic services applicable in different domains and specifically explore new business opportunities in manufacturing and engineering SMEs. Three demonstrators will be provided for the application of new services in real industrial environments and their use for new business models.
More information under: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/85241_en.html
