scholarly journals A Framework for Evaluating Agricultural Ontologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6387
Author(s):  
Anat Goldstein ◽  
Lior Fink ◽  
Gilad Ravid
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
Formal Representation ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Selection Of

An ontology is a formal representation of domain knowledge, which can be interpreted by machines. In recent years, ontologies have become a major tool for domain knowledge representation and a core component of many knowledge management systems, decision-support systems and other intelligent systems, inter alia, in the context of agriculture. A review of the existing literature on agricultural ontologies, however, reveals that most of the studies, which propose agricultural ontologies, are lacking an explicit evaluation procedure. This is undesired because without well-structured evaluation processes, it is difficult to consider the value of ontologies to research and practice. Moreover, it is difficult to rely on such ontologies and share them on the Semantic Web or between semantic-aware applications. With the growing number of ontology-based agricultural systems and the increasing popularity of the Semantic Web, it becomes essential that such evaluation methods are applied during the ontology development process. Our work contributes to the literature on agricultural ontologies by presenting a framework that guides the selection of suitable evaluation methods, which seems to be missing from most existing studies on agricultural ontologies. The framework supports the matching of appropriate evaluation methods for a given ontology based on the ontology’s purpose.

Addressing the ‘Tower of Babel’ of pesticide regulations: an ontology for supporting pest-control decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-503
Author(s):  
A. Goldstein ◽  
L. Fink ◽  
O. Raphaeli ◽  
A. Hetzroni ◽  
G. Ravid
Keyword(s):  
Pest Control ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Comprehensive Method ◽  
Ontology Language ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractFarmers, who have to decide which pesticide to use against a particular crop-damaging pest, need to take into account country-specific regulations (e.g. permitted levels of pesticide residues), application instructions and financial considerations. The fact that these data are stored in different locations, sometimes using different terminology or different languages, makes it difficult to gather these data and requires that farmers are familiar with the variety of terms used, which consequently hampers the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision process. To overcome these challenges, a Web application for pest control is proposed to facilitate the integration of information coming from different Internet sources and representing different terminologies by using an ontology. The application is based on a pest-control ontology (formal representations of domain knowledge that can be interpreted by computers) that accounts for various pesticide regulations of different countries to which the crop is exported. In recent years, ontologies have become a major tool for domain knowledge representation and a core component of many knowledge management systems, decision support systems and other intelligent systems, inter alia, in the context of agriculture. The pest-control ontology developed in the current research includes pest-control concepts that have yet to be covered by existing ontologies. It is demonstrated in the specific case of pepper in Israel. The ontology is expressed using Web Ontology Language (OWL) and thus can be shared on the Web and reused by other ontologies and systems. In addition, a comprehensive method for developing and evaluating agricultural ontologies is presented.

Problems and Trends of Assessment of Personnel in Modern Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
N. Omel'chenko ◽  
L. Skripnichenko ◽  
I. Yurkova
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Intensive Management ◽  
Personnel Evaluation ◽  
Personnel Assessment ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
Subjective Opinion ◽  
Selection Of

Modern trends in the development of society pose challenges to organizations related to the development and application of complex technologies, which will be able to ensure highquality evaluation of personnel, thus identifying their professional and personal potential. The development and implementation of the necessary tools contributes to the solution of the set tasks, increasing the effi ciency of the whole enterprise. The selection of appropriate methods of personnel evaluation should be related to the problems encountered in working with the organization ‘s labour resources. Among the frequent diffi culties in working with personnel it is common to highlight: the prevalence of subjective opinion of the manager when assessing the competences of employees; Inconsistency of requirements for employees; Insuffi cient consideration of the specifi cs of the activities of a particular enterprise; Formalized framework for personnel evaluation procedure; Narrow focus of the applied evaluation methods, insuffi cient integration of the evaluation procedure into the personnel management system. Technologies of personnel assessment are forms of intensive management infl uence on economic, social and spiritual spheres of society activity, as well as on society as a whole. The sustainability and stability of the identifi ed mechanisms of interaction in the implementation of personnel assessment technologies should be taken into account. In order to clarify the main theoretical aspects and to draw the relevant practical conclusions, the authors attempted to carry out this study.

scholarly journals Design and Innovative Methodologies in a Semantic Framework

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Fernandes ◽  
Ian Grosse ◽  
Sundar Krishnamurty ◽  
Jack Wileden
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Web Technologies

Significant expenditure and effort is devoted to the never ending search for reduced product development lifecycle time and increased efficiency. The development of Semantic Web technologies promises a future where knowledge interchange is done seamlessly in open distributed environments. This paper illustrates how Semantic Web technologies in their current state of development can be effectively used to deploy an infrastructure supporting innovation principles and the engineering design processes. A mechanical design was chosen to model the initial phase of a design project using semantic ontologies. This included a set of design requirements, creating a functional model, and making use of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TIPS). The ontology development strategy is built on a combination of larger domain knowledge ontologies and simple process ontologies. Linked user requirements, engineering design, and functional modeling ontologies facilitated the application of TIPS through a set of semantic rules to generate design recommendations. The developed semantic knowledge structure exemplifies a practical implementation of a functional model which served as a record of the design process and as a platform from which to gain additional usefulness out of the stored information.

Automatic Construction of OWL Ontologies From Petri Nets

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongmin Ma ◽  
Haitao Cheng ◽  
Li Yan
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Petri Nets ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Formal Representation ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Automatic Construction ◽  
Ontology Language ◽  
Petri Net Markup Language ◽  
Representation Method

Ontology, as a formal representation method of domain knowledge, plays a particular important key role in semantic web. How to construct ontologies has become a key technology in the semantic web, especially constructing ontologies from existing domain knowledge. Currently, Petri nets have been a mathematical modeling tool, and have been widely studied and successfully applied in modeling of software engineering, database and artificial intelligence. In particular, PNML (Petri Net Markup Language) language has been a part of ISO/IEC Petri nets standard for representing and exchanging data on Petri nets. Therefore, how to construct ontologies from PNML model of Petri nets needs to be investigated. In this article, the authors investigate a method for automatic construction of web ontology language (OWL) ontologies from PNML of Petri nets. Firstly, this paper gives a formal definition and the semantics of PNML models of Petri nets. On this basis, a formal approach for constructing OWL ontologies from PNML model of Petri nets is proposed, i.e., this paper transforms Petri nets (including PNML model and PNML document of the Petri nets) into OWL ontologies at both structure and instance levels. Furthermore, the correctness of the transformation is proved. Finally, a prototype construction tool called PN2OWL is developed to transform Petri nets models into OWL ontologies automatically.

The Challenge of Evaluating Virtual Communities of Practice: A Systematic Mapping Study

10.28945/4505 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 039-064
Author(s):  
Rogerio Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes ◽  
José Carlos Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice ◽  
Selection Of

Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a study of Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP) evaluation methods that aims to identify their current status and impact on knowledge sharing. The purposes of the study are as follows: (i) to identify trends and research gaps in VCoP evaluation methods; and, (ii) to assist researchers to position new research activities in this domain. Background: VCoP have become a popular knowledge sharing mechanism for both individuals and organizations. Their evaluation process is complex; however, it is recognized as an essential means to provide evidences of community effectiveness. Moreover, VCoP have introduced additional features to face to face Communities of Practice (CoP) that need to be taken into account in evaluation processes, such as geographical dispersion. The fact that VCoP rely on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to execute their practices as well as storing artifacts virtually makes more consistent data analysis possible; thus, the evaluation process can apply automatic data gathering and analysis. Methodology: A systematic mapping study, based on five research questions, was carried out in order to analyze existing studies about VCoP evaluation methods and frameworks. The mapping included searching five research databases resulting in the selection of 1,417 papers over which a formal analysis process was applied. This process led to the preliminary selection of 39 primary studies for complete reading. After reading them, we select 28 relevant primary studies from which data was extracted and synthesized to answer the proposed research questions. Contribution: The authors of the primary studies analyzed along this systematic mapping propose a set of methods and strategies for evaluating VCoP, such as frameworks, processes and maturity models. Our main contribution is the identification of some research gaps present in the body of studies, in order to stimulate projects that can improve VCoP evaluation methods and support its important role in social learning. Findings: The systematic mapping led to the conclusion that most of the approaches for VCoP evaluation do not consider the combination of data structured and unstructured metrics. In addition, there is a lack of guidelines to support community operators’ actions based on evaluation metrics.

scholarly journals Are UX Evaluation Methods Providing the Same Big Picture?

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3480
Author(s):  
Walter Takashi Nakamura ◽  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
David Redmiles ◽  
Edson Oliveira ◽  
David Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The Impact

The success of a software application is related to users’ willingness to keep using it. In this sense, evaluating User eXperience (UX) became an important part of the software development process. Researchers have been carrying out studies by employing various methods to evaluate the UX of software products. Some studies reported varied and even contradictory results when applying different UX evaluation methods, making it difficult for practitioners to identify which results to rely upon. However, these works did not evaluate the developers’ perspectives and their impacts on the decision process. Moreover, such studies focused on one-shot evaluations, which cannot assess whether the methods provide the same big picture of the experience (i.e., deteriorating, improving, or stable). This paper presents a longitudinal study in which 68 students evaluated the UX of an online judge system by employing AttrakDiff, UEQ, and Sentence Completion methods at three moments along a semester. This study reveals contrasting results between the methods, which affected developers’ decisions and interpretations. With this work, we intend to draw the HCI community’s attention to the contrast between different UX evaluation methods and the impact of their outcomes in the software development process.

TOXICITY OF INSECTICIDES TO THE ALFALFA LEAFCUTTER BEE, MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA F. (HYMENOPTERA: MEGACHILIDAE), ESTABLISHED BY THREE EVALUATION METHODS

1988 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Charnetski
Keyword(s):  
Petri Dish ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Laboratory Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Megachile Rotundata ◽  
Field Cage ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Leafcutter Bee ◽  
Significant Mortality

AbstractThree methods—tube chambers (ventilated and unventilated), petri dish chambers, and field cages—were used to evaluate the toxicity of deltamethrin, trichlorfon, and methoxychlor deposits on alfalfa, Medicago sativa L., to 1- to 7-day-old alfalfa leafcutter bees, Megachile rotundata (F.), 24 and 48 h after exposure. In unventilated tube chambers, all three insecticides were significantly toxic to male bees after 24 and 48 h, but only deltamethrin and trichlorfon were significantly toxic to female bees after 24 h. In ventilated tube chambers, only deltamethrin was significantly toxic by contact and then only to male bees at 24 h. Significant vapor action was observed only for trichlorfon and only in unventilated tube chambers. By the petri dish method, only deltamethrin caused significant mortality to male and female bees. However, bee mortality increased significantly between 24 and 48 h. By the field cage method, there was no significant difference in mortality among treatments and controls within the 24- and 48-h evaluations. Bee mortality in the controls was much higher in the petri dish and field cage methods than in either of the two variations of the tube chamber method. The three evaluation methods are compared and the need for a standardized laboratory evaluation procedure is discussed.

Semantic Representation of Balinese Traditional Dance

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Irianto Liko Koten ◽  
Cokorda Rai Adi Pramartha
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Traditional Dance ◽  
The World ◽  
Representation Technique

Bali is an island in Indonesia that is rich in culture, for example, is a traditional dance. The traditional dance performance is diverse from one village to another village in Bali. The traditional Balinese dance knowledge should be captured dan documented well in a digital form so that it can be shared easily to different people and generation across the world. The use of ontology as an information representation technique is the preferred solution in this matter because ontology can be used to enhance the development of semantic applications, especially when dealing with semantic webs. In this project, the ontology was built using Protege ontology development tool.  We follow the methontology ontology development method where this methodology clearly describes each of its activity. In this study, we focus to describe two variants of Balinese traditional dance (Barong dance and Pendet dance). In the future, we expect that more type of dance can be documented using our proposed ontology. Keywords: Balinese Dance, Ontology,Semantic Web

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