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KnowWE: a Semantic Wiki for knowledge engineering

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Recently, Semantic Wikis showed reasonable success as collaboration platforms in the context of social semantic applications. In this paper, we present a novel approach, that interprets the concept of Semantic Wikis as a knowledge engineering environment, that effectively help to build decision-support systems. We introduce the Semantic Wiki KnowWE, that provides the possibility to define and maintain ontologies together with strong problem-solving knowledge. Thus, the wiki can be used to collaboratively build decision-support systems. These enhancements require extensions of the standard Semantic Wiki architecture by a task ontology for problem-solving and an adapted reasoning process. We discuss these extensions in detail, and we describe a case study in the field of medical emergency systems.

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    Joachim Baumeister, Jochen Reutelshoefer & Frank Puppe

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Baumeister, J., Reutelshoefer, J. & Puppe, F. KnowWE: a Semantic Wiki for knowledge engineering. Appl Intell 35, 323–344 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-010-0224-5

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