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Hence, with the intention of privileging the conceptualization of the PKO ontology specification, the
procedure conceptual model and its main steps were exposed, as a mean to provide a rationale
behind the competency questions of the ontology that will support the procedure outcome. In addition,
it was shown how the procedure scope delimits the level of granularity of the competency questions
that the ontology should be able to answer.
The case study implementation pointed out some issues. The first one is that further research must
be conducted concerning the adoption of mechanisms for the modularisation of sub-domains that are
invariant when PKO is put into practice. Those are the cases of the profession’s principles and its key
areas. Additionally, the answers provided by the experts during the case study execution affirm the
adoption of ontology networks. We have to notice that such answers are, themselves, subsets of
knowledge (e.g. ITIL, BPM) that can be reused, speeding up the process of building upon a
consensus.
Consequently, it is important to remark that the application of the NeOn Methodology and its toolkit
will have much more attention in the next steps of the PKO ontology development.
Acknowledgements
This research was partially funded by the European Commission, through an Erasmus Mundus
External Cooperation Window (EMECW Lot 19bis) grant. The authors also thank the Department of
Management at the University of Bologna and the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at CUJAE for
fostering the interdisciplinary nature of the subject of this paper.
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