Authors:
            
                    Eufemia Tinelli
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
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                    Antonio Cascone
                    
                        
                                2
                            
                    
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                    Michele Ruta
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Tommaso Di Noia
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Eugenio Di Sciascio
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                     and
                
                    Francesco M. Donini
                    
                        
                                4
                            
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliations:
            
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    Politecnico of Bari; University of Bari, Italy
                
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                                2
                            
                    
                    DOOM s.r.l., Italy
                
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                                3
                            
                    
                    Politecnico of Bari, Italy
                
                    ; 
                
                    
                        
                                4
                            
                    
                    University of Tuscia, Italy
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Skill Management, Logic-based Ranking, Match Explanation, Soft constraint.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Biomedical Engineering
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                        Cloud Computing
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                        Data Engineering
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                        Enterprise Information Systems
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                        Health Information Systems
                    ; 
                        Information Systems Analysis and Specification
                    ; 
                        Knowledge Management
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                        Ontologies and the Semantic Web
                    ; 
                        Semantic Web Technologies
                    ; 
                        Services Science
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                        Society, e-Business and e-Government
                    ; 
                        Software Agents and Internet Computing
                    ; 
                        Web Information Systems and Technologies
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                The paper presents I.M.P.A.K.T. (Information Management and Processing with the Aid of Knowledge-based Technologies), a semantic-enabled platform for skills and talent management. In spite of the full exploitation of recent advances in semantic technologies, the proposed system only relies on standard SQL queries. Distinguishing features include: the possibility to express both strict requirements and preferences in the requested profile, a logic-based ranking of retrieved candidates and the explanation of rank results.