Abstract
The intelligent document and knowledge management mechanism is required for efficient management over the sophisticated knowledge, documents and transaction information induced in the business collaboration environment. In order to establish the knowledge or document repository as an enterprise asset, one of the critical issues is the document content and authority management. In this paper, the key contents of a document are represented as the knowledge ontology consisting of major and minor keywords. Since a decision support approach for document authority determination is required to systematically determine knowledge accessibility, this paper proposes a four-phase reasoning approach for document authority management using keyword ontology. Authority of the target knowledge can be automatically determined on the basis of the keyword correlation with the existing documents. A demonstration case is also provided to illustrate feasibility of the approach. Generally, the approach can provide the knowledge engineer or administrator an applicable solution for efficient knowledge/document content and authority management under the collaborative commerce architecture.