Web of Needs -- A New Paradigm for E-Commerce

Kleedorfer, Florian; Busch, Christina Maria; Grill, Gabriel; Khosravipour, Soheil; Salcher, Fabian; Tus, Alan; Gstrein, Erich

doi:10.1109/cbi.2013.52

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“…There are several projects (mostly in the research or prototype phase) that bring this concept in the Semantic Web context and even make it a cornerstone block of large architectures. One of the most notable examples of this is the project Web of Needs [24,25] that seeks to build a distributed social network where matchings between human participants are established automatically based on the needs they publish or want to help satisfy [12,26]. The Web of Needs consists of agents (nodes), who exchange semantic information, which is captured in the RDF format [26].…”

Section: The Concept Of Need In the Semantic Web Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontology for Representing Human Needs

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Fahrenbach

Kragulj

et al. 2017

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Need satisfaction plays a fundamental role in human wellbeing. Hence understanding citizens' needs is crucial for developing a successful social and economic policy. This notwithstanding, the concept of need has not yet found its place in information systems and online tools. Furthermore, assessing needs itself remains a labor-intensive, mostly offline activity, where only a limited support by computational tools is available. In this paper, we make the first step towards employing need management in the design of information systems supporting participation and participatory innovation by proposing OpeNeeD, a family of ontologies for representing human needs data. As a proof of concept, OpeNeeD has been used to represent, enrich and query the results of a needs assessment study in a local citizen community in one of the Vienna districts. The proposed ontology will facilitate such studies and enable the representation of citizens' needs as Linked Data, fostering its co-creation and incentivizing the use of Open Data and services based on it.

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Section: The Concept Of Need In the Semantic Web Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%