An Innovative Approach to Improve the Performances of the Research Community

This proposal adopts an approach based on a synergy between collaborative learning theories, semantic technologies and soft computing techniques to improve the performances of a research community. It is proposed a model of Virtual Organization based on three interconnected layers that can facilitate in-time retrieval of geo-located competences and skills, the recall of ad hoc services for setting a collaborative-oriented workspace and the access to geo-referenced resource repositories. This model proposes an experimental use of the Semantic Web (Domain Ontologies, Taxonomies, Upper Ontologies, etc...) and we will explain the added value it can bring to the Knowledge Communities research field.