Research and application of enterprise knowledge management system based on ontology

Abstract

With tbe coming of knowledge economy, the pattern of enterprise management is going through a great change. Nowadays, in an enterprise, knowledge management has become a key technology to increase intelligence of technique, competition, business and strategy. The key factors for the enterprise to survive the competitive environment lie in how to extract the needed knowledge from numerous of external and internal information, and how to manage the acquiring, producing and spreading of knowledge and the ability to upgrading of the enterprises based on knowledge. This paper proposes an ontology-based knowledge management framework. Then an application case is presented, which is an examples of knowledge management system based on ontology for a logistics enterprise. © 2008 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.