Conceptual approach through an annotation process for the representation and the information contents enhancement in economic intelligence (EI)

TL;DR

This paper proposes a conceptual annotation process to enhance information content and facilitate decision-making in economic intelligence by integrating annotation activities, software agents, and resource enhancement.

Contribution

It introduces a formal representation of the annotation process tailored for economic intelligence to improve information relevance and decision support.

Findings

Enhanced information content through annotation

Improved decision-making efficiency

Framework integrating annotation, agents, and resources

Abstract

In the era of the information society, the impact of the information systems on the economy of material and immaterial is certainly perceptible. With regards to the information resources of an organization, the annotation involved to enrich informational content, to track the intellectual activities on a document and to set the added value on information for the benefit of solving a decision-making problem in the context of economic intelligence. Our contribution is distinguished by the representation of an annotation process and its inherent concepts to lead the decisionmaker to an anticipated decision: the provision of relevant and annotated information. Such information in the system is made easy by taking into account the diversity of resources and those that are well annotated so formally and informally by the EI actors. A capital research framework consist of integrating in the decision-making process the annotator activity, the software agent (or the reasoning mechanisms) and the information resources enhancement.