Boshokoska, Biljana Mileva and Fernandez, Alejandro and Zhao, Guoqing and Chen, Huilan and Hernández, Jorge E. and Del Pino, Mariana and Zaraté, Pascale and Liu, Shaofeng and Gamboa, Susana
A decision support system for evaluation of the knowledge sharing crossing boundaries in agri-food value chains.
(2019)
Computers in Industry, 110. 64-80. ISSN 0166-3615
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2019.04.012
Abstract
An agri-food value chain (VC) represents a set of activities aimed at delivering highly valuable products to the market. Due to the diversity of actors in the agri-food VCs´ accumulated knowledge is typically situated within the boundaries of each entity of the VC. Hence, the question is how to improve knowledge sharing in agri-food VC, or more specifically how can knowledge flow and mobilize among different actors in the VC. To answer this question, we present a decision support system (DSS) for evaluation of knowledge sharing crossing boundaries in agri-food VC. The proposed DSS is developed through two phases: (i) identification of the most common knowledge boundaries by using machine learning and ontology technologies; (ii) transformation of the obtained ontology into a DSS for the evaluation of existing knowledge boundaries. In particular, the developed DSS helps in identifying, evaluating and providing directions for improvement of the knowledge sharing crossing boundaries in agri-food VC. We apply the DSS to evaluate three real VCs: a tomato VC in Argentina, a Chinese leaf VC in China and a brassica VC in the UK. The comparative analysis across the three varied case studies and their evaluation with the proposed DSS lead to more insights into knowledge-based decisions that a particular VC needs to address to improve its knowledge flow, in particular, to obtain insights in the transparency and interoperability of data and knowledge crossing boundaries in agri-food VCs.
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HAL Id: | hal-02878934 |
Audience (journal): | International peer-reviewed journal |
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE) Other partners > Universidad Nacional de la Plata - UNLP (ARGENTINA) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE) Other partners > Institut "Jožef Stefan" - IJS (SLOVENIA) Other partners > Plymouth University (UNITED KINGDOM) Other partners > University of Liverpool (UNITED KINGDOM) |
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Funders: | European Commission |
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Deposited On: | 17 Jun 2020 15:12 |
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