Grant: Engage Grants Program

In this industrial collaboration, we are building new scientific knowledge that is needed for our industrial partner in order to inform the company's on-going work on an Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. Such a platform particularly tailored for use in industrial settings and dispersed organizations should reduce the need for the following: face-to-face meetings; information exchanges using email; the distribution to colleagues of important updates and vital information about critical people, tasks, and goals. The platform can also increase the agility of organizational learning through individual contributions and personal engagement. The anticipated outcomes of this six-month project are as follows: 1) An evaluation of existing approaches and tools for the integration of organizational information, accumulated from different sources; 2) Development of algorithms for the semantic enhancement of collaborative filtering, organizing and dissemination of organizational information, coming from diverse sources and tools; 3) Determination of the extent to which different social incentive mechanisms can enhance collaboration among the employees of an organization within an Enterprise 2.0; and, 4) Training of at least three graduate students in the general area of semantic technologies for Enterprise 2.0 collaboration.