Adam Westerski

Classifying and comparing community innovation in Idea Management Systems

The Idea Management Systems are a tool for collecting ideas for innovation from large communities. One of the problems of those systems is the difficulty to accurately depict the distinctive features of ideas in a rapid manner and use them for judgement of proposed innovations. Our research aims to solve this problem by introducing annotation of ideas with a domain independent taxonomy that describes various characteristics of ideas. The findings of our study show that such annotations can be successfully transformed into new metrics that allow the comparison of ideas with similar successfulness as the metrics already used in Idea Management Systems but in greater detail. The presented results are based on experiments with over 50,000 ideas gathered from case studies of four different organisations: Dell, Starbucks, Cisco and Canonical.

The road from community ideas to organisational innovation: a life cycle survey of idea management systems

This paper introduces a new emerging software component, the idea management system, which helps to gather, organise, select and manage the innovative ideas provided by the communities gathered around organisations or enterprises. We define the notion of the idea life cycle, which provides a framework for characterising tools and techniques that drive the evolution of community submitted data inside idea management systems. Furthermore, we show the dependencies between the community-created information and the enterprise processes that are a result of using idea management systems and point out the possible benefits.

A Model for Integration and Interlinking of Idea Management Systems

This paper introduces the use of Semantic Web technologies for the Idea Management Systems as a gap closer between heterogeneous software and achieving interoperability. We present a model that proposes how and what kind of rich metadata annotations to apply in the domain of Idea Management Systems. In addition, as a part of our model, we present a Generic Idea and Innovation Management Ontology (GI2MO). The described model is backed by a set of use cases followed by evaluations that prove how Semantic Web can work as tool to create new opportunities and leverage the contemporary Idea Management legacy systems into the next level.

Exploiting Structured Linked Data in Enterprise Knowledge Management Systems: An Idea Management Case Study

In parallel to the effort of creating Open Linked Data for the World Wide Web there is a number of projects aimed for developing the same technologies but in the context of their usage in closed environments such as private enterprises. In the paper, we present results of research on interlinking structured data for use in Idea Management Systems - a still rare breed of knowledge management systems dedicated to innovation management. In our study, we show the process of extending an ontology that initially covers only the Idea Management System structure towards the concept of linking with distributed enterprise data and public data using Semantic Web technologies. Furthermore we point out how the established links can help to solve the key problems of contemporary Idea Management Systems.

Integrated Environment for Visual Data-Level Mashup Development

The visual creation tools in the mashup frameworks are supposed to be simple and accessible. Yet at the same time there is a need to extend the capabilities and complexity of mashups. Therefore, in practice, the frameworks become increasingly hard to learn for a casual user. In relation to the emerging mashup creation techniques in Semantic Web area, in our work we propose an idea to split the development of mashups into two stages: data-level and service-level. Each managed by a separate, although well integrated, environments.

Building consensus via a semantic web collaborative space

In this paper we outline the design and implementation of the eDialogos Consensus process and platform to support wide-scale collaborative decision making. We present the design space and choices made and perform a conceptual alignement of the domains this space entails, based on the use of the eDialogos Consensus ontology as a crystallization point for platform design and implementation as well as interoperability with existing solutions. We also present a metric for calculating agreement on the issues under debate in the platform, incorporating argumentation structure and user feedback.

ROMULUS: Domain Driven Design and Mashup Oriented Development Based on Open Source Java Metaframework for Pragmatic, Reliable and Secure Web Development

Web software development is one of the most active areas and fastest growing industries in software and services development in Europe. In particular, Java Enterprise Edition is the mainstream European technology option for one million European developers. Since web development is not still a mature area, the proliferation of frameworks and components has both increased the required skills of web engineers, and has considerably reduced their productivity. For that reason, the evolution of existing Java based web applications is a very hard and time-consuming task. ROMULUS project has researched Domain Driven Design (DDD) for web application development on Java by means of an open source metaframework. A web metaframework is an abstract layer that collects the main aspects of current web frameworks, such as persistence, security, web flow or authentication.