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Knowledge management in semantic social networks

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An object-oriented model of semantic social networks is proposed and formally analyzed. Methods for project, role, and team management based on the semantic model are defined and implemented in \(\mathfrak{n}\mathfrak{i}\mathbf{K}\mathfrak{l}\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{s}\), a semantic wiki language based on frame logic developed by the author. The new approach to semantic social networks allows dynamic change of social network semantics and the establishment of the well known fishnet organization in a social network. In the end possible applications to knowledge management are presented.

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  1. Please refer to Tredinnick (2006) for a good review.

  2. It should be stated here that teams or subgroups can be organized by any imaginable set of properties, not only skills and knowledge.

  3. Here by |X| we mean the adjacency matrix of graph X.

  4. Organizational units can in this context be either individuals, teams, departments, divisions and even entire organizations or groups of organizations by the fractal organization principle (Žugaj and Schatten 2005, pp. 149–151).

  5. The schema (defined or inferred) is used in ⊺a OP is for input suggestion mechanisms. Such mechanisms try to minimize syntactic errors due to different user input. For a better understanding of such input mechanisms please refer to Schatten et al. (2009a).

  6. There are off course other approaches like sociometrics.

  7. See (Wasserman and Faust 1994) for an in depth discussion of such metrics.

  8. Unified Modeling Language.

  9. In ⊺a OP is not only people can be tagged but various other objects like wiki pages as well. You can imagine the role object as a wiki page (or any other resource) tagged with the adequate attribute-value tags.

  10. Please refer to Schatten et al. (2009b) or http://autopoiesis.foi.hr/wiki.php?name=TOP%20Support&page=Niklas for an outline of \(\mathfrak{n}\mathfrak{i}\mathbf{K}\mathfrak{l}\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{s}\) syntax.

  11. ⊺a OP is allows \(\mathcal{F}\) lora-2 and OWL ontology export.

  12. The benchmark data as well as data generation and testing tools’ source code is available at autopoiesis.foi.hr/benchmark/benchmark.tar.gz.

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Schatten, M. Knowledge management in semantic social networks. Comput Math Organ Theory 19, 538–568 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-012-9141-y

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