A supervised collaborative system for document management

The development of ICT has created a gap between computing processes and the huge volume of available information. Institutions need tools for knowledge management in collaborative environments and these tools should guarantee a certain level of quality of service. On the other hand, Web services are becoming the industry standard for interoperability; but they are far from providing the required robustness level. This paper proposes adapting the MAS principles of electronic contracting for supervising knowledge management processes for knowledge sharing using Web services, and to apply the descriptive capacity of OWL, as a formal semantic language in order to improve the autonomy of background computing processes. A Supervised Collaborative System model (SICLOS) was defined – supervised from a global perspective, based on the semantic management of actions and resources. Dynamic processes control is improved and thereby, the knowledge management service.