Modeling Ontology-based User Profiles from Company Knowledge

This paper presents a model based on the ontology paradigm to represent the knowledge of users who work in companies. The model guarantees to follow specific guidelines that can be used in defining user knowledge. The goal is to improve the development of processes and applications aimed at leveraging the information stored in companies to support users during their interactions with the system by considering all the advantages of the ontology-knowledge. This research was developed in the KBMS 2.0 project where an advanced portal has been defined with the aim to manage and search information effectively. The model to represent user knowledge has been defined by analysing the information of the KBMS 2.0 project stored in the database.