{"title":"An ontology of controversial terms at the core of the systems life cycle","authors":"Lila Rao-Graham, Gunjan Mansingh, Evan W. Duggan","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063135","url":null,"abstract":"The information system IS discipline has been plagued by the absence of agreed definitions of the numerous terminologies that are used throughout the range of processes and activities employed to deliver applications for productive use. This lack of agreement also has constraining implications for cumulative research in the discipline. In this paper, we propose a solution to the problem that involves the development of a formal IS domain ontology using a methodology that focuses on ensuring the completeness and consistency of the ontology. The ontology provides a mechanism for standardising the vocabulary in the domain, classifying concepts and terms, representing relationships, identifying synonyms and homonyms, and it identifies the instances of these concepts and relationships. Our solution will facilitate knowledge sharing in the information systems community and further scholarly activities which require a deeper understanding of the structure of information in this domain.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133949847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the multilingualism gap in ontology alignment","authors":"Marouen Kachroudi, Sami Zghal, S. Yahia","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063139","url":null,"abstract":"In the semantic web context, research in ontology alignment has focused primarily on the development of monolingual matching algorithms. As more and more resources become available in more than one natural language, novel algorithms are required. The latter are capable of aligning ontologies which share more than one language. Indeed, translation techniques are often used as an intermediate step to translate ontology labels. This treatment essentially removes the natural language barrier in the alignment environment. To meet this challenge, we propose in this paper a new cross-lingual alignment method, designed to take into account the goal of dealing with ontologies expressed in different natural languages. The proposed method implements a strategy of a direct alignment based on the use of external resources. The results of performed tests with our method on different pairs of ontologies and according to several scenarios show their effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128417640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of dynamically updated automatic ontology for mobile phone information retrieval system","authors":"S. Saraswathi, S. Venkataramanasam","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063128","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the construction of an automatic ontology tree which is capable of dynamically updating information for efficient management of up-to-date information in the domain of mobile phones. The proposed system takes the URL of the most relevant website as input. It acquires information from web pages that are related to the domain and based on those information automatically constructs the ontology tree. To make the ontology tree up-to-date periodic comparison of the values are made with information available over the internet, outdated information is pruned and updates are merged into the ontology tree dynamically. The constructed ontology tree can be queried with domain-related queries and the ontology tree provides relevant result for the query. The proposed system is suited for domains that make frequent updates because it takes special care on dynamically monitoring changes on the web and performing updates on par with it.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130887021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CDL: an extensible constraints framework for model-based development","authors":"Christian Kreiner, M. Krallinger","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063131","url":null,"abstract":"The model-based paradigm has progressed from scientific research to industrial use. Great effort has gone into providing elaborate meta-models for different application domains, such as aviation or automotive. Instance models have to fulfil certain criteria originating from different areas, such as the development process or legal requirements, and more. These criteria are usually defined in the beginning of the development process, and often statically implemented in the tool editor. In the constraint definition framework and language CDL presented here, the Tool Smith can provide reusable constraints for a domain expert, who creates a custom constraints set in turn. The modeller uses these domain-specific custom constraints and applies them to the instance model he develops. Furthermore, in CDL, constraints can be augmented with actions supporting the modeller to repair defects on the model. The contribution of this work is an extensible constraint framework and language, supporting the model-based development process. A case study from the automotive domain is described, showing the feasibility of the approach.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"167 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An ontology-based domain model to enhance the software development process","authors":"M. Alias, D. D. H. Miriam, C. Robin","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.063132","url":null,"abstract":"As many of the current programming languages provide only a single programming paradigm, most of the software developers need to mix and match different paradigms, which typically leads to an impedance mismatch. To avoid this, it is essential to develop a system which supports a multi-programming paradigm. The proposed system is developed integrating the ontology paradigm in a programming language called Clojure. These ontology paradigms are added as a library in Clojure, for reusability and code sharing. The basic approach used for integrating the systems is metaprogramming. This will craft and process languages for creating, modifying, adapting, adjusting and transforming other programs. The implementation of the ontology paradigm is theoretically based on description logics, which are formalisms for representing knowledge. The developed system will support ontological, functional, object-oriented and concurrent paradigms. The entire business process can be represented using the developed library.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115690165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a representation for multi-viewpoints ontology alignments","authors":"Lynda Djakhdjakha, M. Hemam, Zizette Boufaïda","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060324","url":null,"abstract":"In a heterogeneous multi-communities organisation, several communities or groups of users exist with their own viewpoints. Multi-viewpoint ontologies are becoming a crucial aspect in overcoming the limitations of sharing knowledge and keeping the viewpoint of each member of the community. Various ontology alignment approaches have been proposed; however, no system has explored the problem of ontology alignment in the specific context of multi-viewpoints. Moreover, the proposed alignment formats are not sufficient to cover the representation needs of the multi-viewpoints ontology alignments. The key insight into this work is that multi-viewpoints alignment is a set of semantic correspondences between multi-viewpoints ontology elements. Thus, this work focuses on the proposition of a new format allowing the presentation of semantic mapping between multi-viewpoints ontology elements. The extended multi-viewpoints alignment format has the possibility to take into account the different viewpoints' aspects in formal way.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129382812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lightweight domain ontology learning from texts: graph theory-based approach using Wikipedia","authors":"Khalida Bensidi Ahmed, Adil Toumouh, D. Widdows","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060323","url":null,"abstract":"Ontology engineering is the backbone of the semantic web. However, the construction of formal ontologies is a tough exercise which requires time and heavy costs. Ontology learning is thus a solution for this requirement. Since texts are massively available everywhere, making up of experts' knowledge and their know-how, it is of great value to capture the knowledge existing within such texts. Our approach is thus the kind of research work that answers the challenge of creating concepts' hierarchies from textual data taking advantage of the Wikipedia encyclopaedia to achieve some good-quality results. This paper presents a novel approach which essentially uses plain text Wikipedia instead of its categorical system and works with a simplified algorithm to infer a domain taxonomy from a graph.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134283456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cormac Hampson, S. Lawless, Eoin Bailey, Christina M. Steiner, Eva-Catherine Hillemann, Owen Conlan
{"title":"Metadata-enhanced exploration of digital cultural collections","authors":"Cormac Hampson, S. Lawless, Eoin Bailey, Christina M. Steiner, Eva-Catherine Hillemann, Owen Conlan","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060342","url":null,"abstract":"The increased digitisation of cultural collections and their availability on the World Wide Web has made access to these valuable documents much easier than ever before. However, despite the increased availability of access to cultural archives, curators still struggle to instigate and enhance engagement with these resources. The CULTURA project is actively addressing this issue through the development of a metadata-driven personalisation environment for exploring cultural collections and instigating collaborations. This paper discusses the state of the art in this area and the various innovative approaches used in the CULTURA project, with a special focus on how the underlying metadata helps to facilitate its semantically rich environment. An evaluation of the CULTURA project with students is detailed, highlighting its relevance for those without domain expertise. This is vital as the system needs to adapt and support a full spectrum of users, from professional researchers to interested members of the public.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132046411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facilitating the specification of WSMO ontology using model-driven development","authors":"Djamel Amar Bensaber","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060322","url":null,"abstract":"A semantic web service extends the capabilities of a web service by associating a semantic description of the web service in order to enable better search, discovery, selection, composition and integration. Semantically rich language such as Web Service Modeling Ontology WSMO has been created in order to provide a mechanism for describing the semantics of semantic web services. Unfortunately, for the common developer the learning curve for such languages can be steep, providing a barrier for adoption and widespread use. In this paper, we present a Model-Driven Architecture MDA approach for facilitating the specification of WSMO ontology through the use of meta-model and UML profile for modelling semantic web services; we concentrate our efforts to develop a transformation approach based on MDA to automate the generation of code by translating XMI specifications e.g. XML encodings of UML into equivalent WSMO specifications using Atlas Transformation Language ATL transformations.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124385664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with interoperability and sustainability in cultural heritage aggregative data infrastructures","authors":"A. Bardi, P. Manghi, F. Zoppi","doi":"10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2014.060341","url":null,"abstract":"The Cultural Heritage CH community is one of the most active in the realisation of Aggregative Data Infrastructures ADIs. ADIs provide tools to integrate data sources to form uniform and richer information spaces. The realisation of ADIs for CH must be based on technology capable of coping with complex interoperability issues and sustainability issues. In this paper, we present the D-NET software toolkit framework and services, devised for the realisation of sustainable and customisable ADIs. In particular, we demonstrate the effectiveness of D-NET in the CH scenario by describing its usage in the realisation of a real-case ADI for the EC project Heritage of the People's Europe HOPE. The HOPE ADI uses D-NET to implement a two-phase metadata conversion methodology that addresses data interoperability issues while facilitating sustainability by encouraging participation of data sources.","PeriodicalId":111629,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116161879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}