A model of ontology driven case-based reasoning for electronic issue management systems

An electronic issue management system, alternatively known as a help desk system, refers to a computer application that can be used to electronically automate the process of managing business issues, including problems, defects, tasks, changes or new requests. The difficulties found in using such a system are often from the lack of expertise to resolve the issues that are stored by the system. This paper proposes to use ontology and case-based reasoning to better provide structured information and enable the capturing of tacit knowledge of experts for issue management.