scholarly journals Enabling Knowledge Sharing within e-Government Back-Office through Ontological Engineering

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Graciela Brusa ◽  
María Laura Caliusco ◽  
Omar Chiotti
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
The Public ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
Main Requirement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Back Office

Nowadays, organizational innovation constitutes the government challenges for providing better and more efficient services to citizens, enterprises or other public offices. E–government seems to be an excellent opportunity to work on this way. The applications that support front-end services delivered to users have to access information systems of multiple government areas. This is a significant problem for e-government back-office since multiple platforms and technologies coexist. Moreover, in the back-office there is a great volume of data that is implicit in the software applications that support administration activities. In this context, the main requirement is to make available the data managed in the back-office for the e-government users in a fast and precise way, without misunderstanding. To this aim, it is necessary to provide an infrastructure that make explicit the knowledge stored in different government areas and deliver this knowledge to the users. This paper presents an approach on how ontological engineering techniques can be applied to solving the problems of content discovery, aggregation, and sharing in the e-government back-office. This approach is constituted by a specific process to develop an ontology in the public sector and an ontology-based architecture. In order to present the process characteristics, a case study applied to a local government domain is analyzed. This domain is the budget and financial information of Santa Fe Province (Argentine).

Some Ontological Distinctions of Function Based on the Role Concept

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinobu Kitamura ◽  
Riichiro Mizoguchi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Functional Modeling ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Functional Models ◽  
Role Concept ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
The Relationship

Function is an important aspect of artifacts in engineering design. Although many definitions of function have been proposed in the extensive research mainly in engineering design and philosophy, the relationship among them remains unclear. Aiming at a contribution to this problem, this paper investigates some ontological issues based on the role concept in ontological engineering. We discuss some ontological distinctions of function such as essentiality and actuality and then propose some fundamental kinds of function such as essential function and capacity function. Based on them, we categorize some existing definitions in the literature and clarify the relationship among them. Then, a model of function in a product life-cycle is proposed. It represents the changes of existence of the individuals of each kind of function, which are caused by designing, manufacturing and use. That model enables us to give answers to some ontological questions such as when and where a function exists and what a function depends on. The consideration on these issues provides engineers with some differentiated viewpoints for capturing functions and thus contributes to consistent functional modeling from a specific viewpoint. The clarified relationships among the kinds of function including the existing definitions in the literature will contribute to interoperability among functional models based on the different kinds and/or definitions.

Effect of Direction and Distance on Cross Pollination in Egyptian Cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)

1972 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan E. Galal ◽  
H. A. Abou-El-Fittouh ◽  
Gadd Morshed
Keyword(s):  
Linear Relation ◽  
Gossypium Barbadense ◽  
Cotton Breeding ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
Breeding Methodology ◽  
Egyptian Cotton ◽  
Cross Fertilization

SUMMARYThe effect on cross pollination of four directions and six distances from the marker variety in Egyptian cotton was investigated. The percentage of cross pollination did not differ appreciably in the different directions but there were significant differences in cross fertilization among the six distances. A linear relation was observed between cross pollination per cent and distance up to 8.8 m. from the marker variety. Implications of these findings on various aspects of cotton breeding methodology are discussed.

Conventional Cotton Breeding

2015 ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Bourland ◽  
Gerald O. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Cotton Breeding

scholarly journals Ontological Engineering: Principles, Methods, Tools and Languages

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Corcho ◽  
Mariano Fernández-López ◽  
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Engineering

Semantic Synchronization in B2B Transactions

2010 ◽  
pp. 1518-1542
Author(s):  
Janina Fengel ◽  
Heiko Paulheim ◽  
Michael Rebstock
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Ontology Matching ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
Business Information Systems ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Mapping Technology

Despite the development of e-business standards, the integration of business processes and business information systems is still a non-trivial issue if business partners use different e-business standards for formatting and describing information to be processed. Since those standards can be understood as ontologies, ontological engineering technologies can be applied for processing, especially ontology matching for reconciling them. However, as e-business standards tend to be rather large-scale ontologies, scalability is a crucial requirement. To serve this demand, we present our ORBI Ontology Mediator. It is linked with our Malasco system for partition-based ontology matching with currently available matching systems, which so far do not scale well, if at all. In our case study we show how to provide dynamic semantic synchronization between business partners using different e-business standards without initial ramp-up effort, based on ontological mapping technology combined with interactive user participation.

An Ontology-Driven System for E-Learning and Knowledge Management

2010 ◽  
pp. 302-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Operation System ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
Modeling Tool ◽  
Graphic Model ◽  
Driven System ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Run Time

Between 2003 and 2008, within the LORNET research network (www.lornet.org), our team has been designing and developing TELOS, an innovative operation system for eLearning and knowledge management environments that is driven by a technical ontology. After presenting the underlying principles of this system, we will develop a graphic model of the resulting ontology that captures the conceptual architecture of the system. Next, we will present the main aggregation modeling tool and the way it is related to the TELOS Ontology. Finally, we will illustrate how the ontology is used to drive the system at run-time. The conclusion will discuss the contri- bution of this research to the field of ontological engineering of software systems.

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