Towards a Services-Based Approach for Supporting Idea Development Process

This paper describes our approach for supporting the idea development process by integrating the ontological vision and services-oriented approaches. We start by analyzing the existing models for the creative process and by identifying new challenges of the creative society, while focusing on different kinds of knowledge charactering the creativity process. Second, we argue the importance of the value creation and semantic consistency of the idea development process, and underline the interdependence of the ontology-enabled and services-oriented approaches for supporting it. Third, we study the static and dynamic aspects of the development process and propose the methodology allowing us to identify and model these aspects. We also argue the role of the experience in creation and discuss how it can be transformed into actionable knowledge for modeling. Fourth, we describe the scope of the ongoing work aimed to illustrate the feasibility of our model: the intelligent negotiation table bringing together the professionals of different domains for solving an applied task. Finally, we discuss the perspectives of this research and the priorities of our future work.