Juliano Picussa, L. S. García, J. Bueno, M. R. V. Ferreira, A. Direne, L. C. E. Bona, Fabiano Silva, M. Castilho, M. Sunyé
{"title":"A user-interface environment solution for an online educational Chess server","authors":"Juliano Picussa, L. S. García, J. Bueno, M. R. V. Ferreira, A. Direne, L. C. E. Bona, Fabiano Silva, M. Castilho, M. Sunyé","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an interface and interaction environment for a public online Chess server, on the web, as an educational tool. The main purpose of the environment is to improve Chess teaching in Brazilian public schools. The vast majority of such Chess online servers consider and take for granted that users are specialists rather than learners. The solution described in this paper is inserted in an education environment, aiming at providing users with direct access to the contextually significant actions by means of strategic and operational help.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116731950","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":"A new survey on knowledge discovery and data mining","authors":"F. Mhamdi, M. Elloumi","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632134","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge discovery is an emerging field where we combine techniques from algorithmics, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics to deal with the theoretical and practical issues of extracting knowledge, i.e., new concepts or concept relationships hidden in volumes of raw data. Knowledge discovery offers the capacity to automate complex search and data analysis tasks.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114533244","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":"A multi view based traceability management method","authors":"H. E. Ghazi, Saïd Assar","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632129","url":null,"abstract":"The approach presented in this work aims to guide the companies in their design of requirements traceability models adapted to the context of their projects. This is achieved by allowing the construction of a model based on trace fragments adapted to each phase of the development process or to a specific situation. Furthermore, the approach guides the users to use the traceability model in a requirement management tool. And help them capture and mange the evolution of the traceability data.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133562727","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":"Conceptual dependencies between two connected IT domains: Business/IS alignment and IT governance","authors":"S. Nurcan, Bruno Claudepierre, I. Gmati","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632097","url":null,"abstract":"Mastering the complexity of IS engineering processes which are more and more constrained with the rapid market change became an essential requirement. IS engineers are challenged to develop systems that can meet the requirements of modern organisations in a continuously evolving environment. As far as IS engineering is concerned, IT governance has also the responsibility to master the change process and the evolution of the IS. We argue that Business/IS alignment and decision making mechanisms serve each other: strategic alignment is well performed when leaders make adequate decisions in time and strategic alignment facilitates the decision making process related to the information system (IS) and business processes (BP). We argue that it is essential to understand the dependencies and implications between ITG and alignment in order to improve both as a whole and to enhance the sustainability of ISs we engineer. This work provides a first stage in the understanding of Business/IS alignment and IT governance requirements and of their dependencies. It also offers a comparison framework for IS development approaches with respect to their ability to support Business/IS alignment and IT governance requirements.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127824128","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":"Early assessment of software architecture qualities","authors":"M. Galster, A. Eberlein, M. Moussavi","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632096","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach for the ad-hoc assessment of software architecture qualities. The method allows evaluating architectures at early development stages and focuses on development qualities (e.g., coupling), rather than on runtime qualities (e.g., performance). Early feedback in the development process facilitates immediate improvement of low quality architecture artifacts. The proposed method defines three levels of architecture quality attributes, some of which are expressed as computable metrics while the other quality attributes are derived from these metrics. Throughout the paper, the example of a cruise-control system illustrates the approach.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114670325","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":"Knowledge evaluation procedure based on concept maps","authors":"D. Burdescu, M. Mihăescu, B. Logofatu","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632120","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluation of accumulated knowledge level for a student is a critical aspect in any learning program and therefore in an e-Learning system. Proper estimation of accumulated knowledge may bring valuable information regarding the student and the effort that he needs to have in order to achieve certain goals. On the other hand, proper estimation can bring very useful information about e-Learning system efficiency. In this context this paper presents a procedure of estimating studentpsilas accumulated knowledge based on concept maps. The procedure computes the percentage of covered concepts for a discipline that is partitioned in chapters.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117330636","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":"Multidimensional representation of System Dynamics simulation models","authors":"Lasse Burmester, Matthias Goeken","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632114","url":null,"abstract":"System Dynamics is an approach with a long tradition used for modelling and simulation of complex system. Early, a conceptual modelling language was applied to bridge the dasialinguistic gappsila between the natural language of the model users and the targeted simulation language. Despite the maturity of the modelling approach, up to today no linguistic definitions (linguistic metamodel) exists for the used languages, resulting in non complying language extensions and the lack of reasonable combination with other modelling languages, e.g. for use in Business Intelligence Systems. This paper aims at the development of a linguistic definition of the language used in SD modelling in terms of a linguistic metamodel. Further, the metamodel based extension and combination of modelling languages is demonstrated by relating the SD language to multidimensional data modelling. Finally, an application example from the domain of performance measurement is given to illustrate the findings.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130848544","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}
A. Katifori, Elena Torou, C. Vassilakis, George Lepouras, C. Halatsis
{"title":"Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks","authors":"A. Katifori, Elena Torou, C. Vassilakis, George Lepouras, C. Halatsis","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632101","url":null,"abstract":"The need for effective ontology visualization for design, management and browsing has arisen as a result of the progress in the areas of semantic Web and personal information management. There are several ontology visualizations available through existing ontology management tools, but not as many evaluations to determine their advantages and disadvantages and their suitability for various ontologies and user groups. This work presents selected results of an evaluation of four visualization methods in Protege.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128860369","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}
Yan Tang, S. Christiaens, Koen Kerremans, R. Meersman
{"title":"PROFILE COMPILER: Ontology-based, community-grounded, multilingual online services to support collaborative decision making","authors":"Yan Tang, S. Christiaens, Koen Kerremans, R. Meersman","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632117","url":null,"abstract":"In todaypsilas industries, ontologies and the modern semantic technologies are offered as the potential solutions to support mutual understanding in the collaborative settings. Currently, organizations are unable to cope with collaborative decision making in a particular domain. Mastering domain knowledge and sharing decision rules is a complex yet important issue. In this paper, we first design a generic framework for community-grounded, collaborative decision making enabled, ontology based systems. This framework is constructed with three main engineering tracks: the linguistic engineering track, the ontology engineering track and the group decision engineering track. Each engineering track has its own methodology supported by a tool. Then, we use Semantic Decision Tables to elaborate the knowledge blocks resulting from these three engineering tracks. Semantic Decision Tables are mainly used (1) to elaborate concepts of the domain ontologies, (2) to gather semantically grounded decision rules within a decision group and (3) to provide tabular reports to the users. Finally, an online multilingual knowledge platform - the PROFILE COMPILER is developed as the result. It allows small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to retrieve and personalize existing domain ontology, design and share their decision rules. We illustrate in the domain of Human Resource Management (HRM).","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114773213","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":"High-level design and analysis of business processes the advantages of declarative specifications","authors":"I. Rychkova, Gil Regev, A. Wegmann","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632098","url":null,"abstract":"Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many conditions in which a sequence cannot be identified at design time. We present declarative business process specifications that can be used to align optional process customizations, as well as process redesign, with the business strategy of the organization. These specifications complement the traditional (imperative) business process model by specifying the process independently from a particular environment.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114858769","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}