Results of multi-agent system and ontology to manage ideas and represent knowledge in a challenge of creativity

TL;DR

This paper presents a multi-agent system and an ontology designed to support idea management and knowledge representation in distributed creative workshops with heterogeneous information and collaborative roles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ontology for ideas and a multi-agent system to facilitate distributed, collaborative creativity activities involving heterogeneous data.

Findings

Effective management of ideas in distributed environments

Ontology supports diverse idea descriptions including text and scenarios

Multi-agent system enhances collaboration among distant participants

Abstract

This article is about an intelligent system to support ideas management as a result of a multi-agent system used in a distributed system with heterogeneous information as ideas and knowledge, after the results about an ontology to describe the meaning of these ideas. The intelligent system assists participants of the creativity workshop to manage their ideas and consequently proposing an ontology dedicated to ideas. During the creative workshop many creative activities and collaborative creative methods are used by roles immersed in this creativity workshop event where they share knowledge. The collaboration of these roles is physically distant, their interactions might be synchrony or asynchrony, and the information of the ideas are heterogeneous, so we can say that the process is distributed. Those ideas are writing in natural language by participants which have a role and the ideas are heterogeneous since some of them are described by schema, text or scenario of use. This paper presents first, our MAS and second our Ontology design.