To realize the vision of the semantic web it is essential to be able to exchange formal modeled knowledge between applications and humans without loss of meaning. In this paper, we focus on questions relating to meani...
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To realize the vision of the semantic web it is essential to be able to exchange formal modeled knowledge between applications and humans without loss of meaning. In this paper, we focus on questions relating to meaning, interpretation and subject identity in modern semantic web languages. Based on the semiotic triangle we show that topics as well as RDF resources are symbols, representing concepts and not referents as the common term "subject" would indicate. A subject can not be represented as a single entity, but rather as a complex and evolving system of different concepts. Based on this insight we explain how the resulting plurality and uncertainness of the interpretation of symbols can be handled using semantic mappings. By defining transformation rules, the exchange and integration of knowledge from different semantic models becomes possible. Concluding we define recommendations and design guidelines for a semantic mapping management system, which is needed to support users and applications in creating, reusing, managing and applying such semantic mappings.
Flow graph is an effective and graphical tool of knowledge representation and analysis. It explores dependent relation between knowledge in the form of information flow quantity. However, the quantity of flow can not ...
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Business-to-business workflow interoperation across Virtual Organisations (VOs) brings about possibilities for novel business scenarios. In such business scenarios, parts of workflows corresponding to different partne...
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In this paper we give a brief history on conceptual modeling in computerscience and we discuss state-of-the-art approaches. It is claimed that a number of problems remain to be solved. "Schema-first" is no ...
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In this paper, we present a variety of methods to evaluate a multi-model information retrieval system. The evaluation methods are divided into three steps: (1) evaluating a metadata driven search engine, (2) evaluatin...
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In this paper, we present a variety of methods to evaluate a multi-model information retrieval system. The evaluation methods are divided into three steps: (1) evaluating a metadata driven search engine, (2) evaluating a personalized cluster-based semantic search engine, and (3) evaluating a dual representation of the semantic user profile for personalized Web search in an evolving domain. The first part of this paper presents an overview of the most popular information retrieval models and their evaluation methods. The second part is dedicated to the specific evaluation methods that we used to evaluate each model of our platform. This platform is already being used by online students at WKU. As of 2006 the "HyperManyMedia" search engine has been ranked number 24 on "The Ultimate Guide to Using Open Courseware 1" (between Cambridge University and Harvard Business).
The semantic Web has been evolved as a key technology, bringing new insights and solutions to well documented problems in e-learning. The research field of semantic e-learning covers a wide range of research problems....
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The semantic Web has been evolved as a key technology, bringing new insights and solutions to well documented problems in e-learning. The research field of semantic e-learning covers a wide range of research problems. In this paper, we present an approach to visualize an ontology driven information retrieval system in the context of E-learning. This approach has been implemented on the HyperManyMedia platform, and is already being used by online students at WKU. The design of this work is based on the following steps: (1) presenting the HyperManyMedia domain as a tree consisting of concepts and subconcepts where the leaves are the documents (lectures), (2) embedding Nutch search engine into the platform, (3) reconfiguring Nutch search engine to accommodate the semantic search, (4) using Prefuse as a visual tool to present the ontology as a graph, and (5) embedding the graph into the platform as an applet so that learners can navigate visually through the ontology of the domain by clicking on nodes.
New application domains ranging from the area of computational science (e.g. CERN Datagrid) to international business processes (e.g. Wal-Mart logistics) demand ever increasing storage capacities on a global scale. Th...
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New application domains ranging from the area of computational science (e.g. CERN Datagrid) to international business processes (e.g. Wal-Mart logistics) demand ever increasing storage capacities on a global scale. Therefore the ability to query and access data efficiently is one of the major challenges that drive research and development in the area of wide distributed data management. Due to the situation of a huge variety of underlying heterogeneous and homogenous infrastructures, where each showing specific hard- and software resources and a number of possible data sources, the optimization of the access process to the desired data is a challenging task. Hence, this paper introduces a novel heuristic approach for the optimization of query execution plans (QEP) on a global scale based on an extended multi-layered blackboard mechanism to determine which available (1) data, (2) resources, and (3) operations to use. The proposed method is illustrated by an application scenario of finding an optimal QEP for the retrieval of music information from an online music store.
What-if analysis is an important type of DSS analysis processing procedure. It analyzes hypothetical scenarios based on historical data. The data cube view must be updated when the what-if condition is changed. Since ...
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What-if analysis is an important method to analyze the hypothetical scenarios based on the historical data. It provides useful information for the decision- maker. Multiple versions are critical to what-if analysis. I...
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A fuzzy multi-resolution neural network (FMRANN) based on particle swarm algorithm is proposed to approximate arbitrary nonlinear function. The active function of the FMRANN consists of not only the wavelet functions,...
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