Semantic profile-based document logistics for cooperative research

This paper proposes a document logistics approach for cooperative research based on the Web and Knowledge Grid. The approach realizes effective research document collection, organization and provision as well as knowledge sharing by incorporating the following functions: construction of semantic profiles representing interests, continuous discovery and collection of potentially relevant documents, synthesis of evaluation feedbacks, and support of flexible management operations and document recommendation services. The prototype has been implemented and is available for use online. Experiments show that the proposed approach is feasible and effective. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.