A knowledge management platform for supporting digital business ecosystems based on P2P and SOA technologies

Χριστοδουλακης Σταυρος(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~schristodoulakis)
Christodoulakis Stavros(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~schristodoulakis)
Παππας Νικολαος(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~pappas)
Pappas Nikos(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~pappas)
Καζασης Φωτης(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~fkazasis)
Kazasis Fotis(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~fkazasis)
Ανεστης Γεωργιος(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ganest)
Anestis Georgios(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ganest)
Γιολδασης Νεκταριος(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ngioldasis)
Gioldasis Nektarios(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~ngioldasis)

DOI

10.1109/DEST.2007.371970

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Abstract

Summarization: We consider a digital business ecosystem environment where SMEs cooperate and compete. We aim to provide to each SME and the ecosystem with knowledge management mechanisms to support their needs for information, service findings and recommendations. We present the design and implementation of a platform that supports the knowledge management needs in this environment. We describe the business related knowledge managed by the knowledge base (KB), as well as the architectural components and the core services supported by the KB infrastructure. Since the SMEs are independent and their KB contents are evolving we adopted a P2P framework for the cooperation of SMEs. We present the P2P framework and we outline the knowledge discove...