Social Semantic Web Fosters Idea Brainstorming

Generating and identifying promising ideas represent important challenges for any Enterprise that is focused on knowledge-intensive activities. The generation of new ideas, especially high-quality creative ideas, is vital to business success. Brainstorming is a didactic method that can be exploited to sustain the development of high order skills considered fundamental to foster innovation. On the other side, brainstorming sessions produce new ideas that have to be evaluated and possibly selected. In this paper the Social Semantic Web is exploited in order to define an approach for brainstorming that overcomes the limitations of the existing systems supporting groups in generating ideas. The Semantic Web-based structures organize, correlate and simplify the search for user-generated contents (e.g. ideas). Meanwhile, user-generated contents are analysed in order to elicit non-asserted correlations between them that are used to enrich the aforementioned structures.