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Towards Automatic Business Networks Identification

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Dynamic changes on of the business environment force business experts to continuously monitor and analyze situation and relations on the market. Due to the volume of available data and huge number of entities that operates on most markets, it is very time and cost consuming to perform the analysis manually. The paper presents an outline of analysis method that focus on identification on business networks and analysis of business environment of the specific business entity. The method operates on a set of semantically described profiles that are automatically processed and analyzed according the to user’s criteria.

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The work published in this article was supported by the project titled: “Clustering Method to Support Strategic Decision-Making Process in the Semantic Web” financed by the National Science Centre (NCN) (decision no. DEC-2012/05/N/HS4/01875).

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Lewańska, E. (2017). Towards Automatic Business Networks Identification. In: Abramowicz, W., Alt, R., Franczyk, B. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52464-1_36

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