Knowledge Representation for the Development of Collaborative Applications

Abstract. The workflow to develop collaborative applications should be highly adaptable to frequent organizational changes. In order to increase the adaptability of workflow, an ontology-based workflow model is proposed. This model represents the set of steps —along with their order of execution — performed by different entities for developing this kind of applications. Ontology is one of the strategies for the structured representation of a chosen knowledge domain in a formal way, helping to remove ambiguity and redundancy, detecting errors, and allowing automated reasoning. In this work, the ontologies are considered as models to represent knowledge. A case study is presented in order to show the use of Knowledge-based Workflow Model for Collaborative Applications