Showing papers by "Riichiro Mizoguchi published in 2006"

The semantic Web - ASWC 2006 : First Asian Semantic Web Conference, Beijing, China, September 3-7, 2006 : proceedings

Abstract: Invited Talks.- The Semantic Web: A Network of Understanding.- Transformation from OWL Description to Resource Space Model.- Next Generation Semantic Web Applications.- Annotation.- Hierarchical Topic Term Extraction for Semantic Annotation in Chinese Bulletin Board System.- Automatic Annotation Using Citation Links and Co-citation Measure: Application to the Water Information System.- Semantic Annotation Using Horizontal and Vertical Contexts.- Semantic Wiki as a Lightweight Knowledge Management System.- Ontology Alignment.- Partition-Based Block Matching of Large Class Hierarchies.- Towards Quick Understanding and Analysis of Large-Scale Ontologies.- Matching Large Scale Ontology Effectively.- Finding Important Vocabulary Within Ontology.- Document and Recommendation.- Ontology-Based Similarity Between Text Documents on Manifold.- A Formalism of XML Restructuring Operations.- FTT Algorithm of Web Pageviews for Personalized Recommendation.- Social Network and RSS.- D-FOAF: Distributed Identity Management with Access Rights Delegation.- Community Focused Social Network Extraction.- Behavioral Analysis Based on Relations in Weblogs.- UniRSS: A New RSS Framework Supporting Dynamic Plug-In of RSS Extension Modules.- Ontology Integration and Interoperability 1.- Ontology-Based RBAC Specification for Interoperation in Distributed Environment.- Business Process Collaboration Using Semantic Interoperability: Review and Framework.- An Ontology Architecture for Integration of Ontologies.- Automatic Alignment of Ontology Eliminating the Probable Misalignments.- Ontology Integration and Interoperability 2.- Semantic Integration of Enterprise Information: Challenges and Basic Principles.- Application Integration Using Conceptual Spaces (CSpaces).- A New Evaluation Method for Ontology Alignment Measures.- Representing and Reasoning with Application Profiles Based on OWL and OWL/XDD.- Reasoning.- OWL-Full Reasoning from an Object Oriented Perspective.- Visualizing Defeasible Logic Rules for the Semantic Web.- A Reasoning Algorithm for pD*.- Triple Space Computing: Adding Semantics to Space-Based Computing.- Application 1.- Full-Automatic High-Level Concept Extraction from Images Using Ontologies and Semantic Inference Rules.- Dental Decision Making on Missing Tooth Represented in an Ontology and Rules.- Ontology Driven Visualisation of Maps with SVG - Technical Aspects.- Applying CommonKADS and Semantic Web Technologies to Ontology-Based E-Government Knowledge Systems.- A Semantics-Based Protocol for Business Process Transactions.- Information Search.- Fuzzy View-Based Semantic Search.- A Semantic Search Conceptual Model and Application in Security Access Control.- Document Filtering for Domain Ontology Based on Concept Preferences.- Database.- Qualitative Spatial Relation Database for Semantic Web.- Automatic Creation and Simplified Querying of Semantic Web Content: An Approach Based on Information-Extraction Ontologies.- HStar - A Semantic Repository for Large Scale OWL Documents.- Minerva: A Scalable OWL Ontology Storage and Inference System.- Semantic Web Services 1.- Exploring the Flexible Workflow Technology to Automate Service Composition.- Mediation Enabled Semantic Web Services Usage.- Toward Automatic Discovery and Invocation of Information-Providing Web Services.- Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services - A Theorem Proof Approach.- Semantic Web Services 2.- A Semantic Rewriting Approach to Automatic Information Providing Web Service Composition.- Web Services Analysis: Making Use of Web Service Composition and Annotation.- WWW: WSMO, WSML, and WSMX in a Nutshell.- Automatic Generation of Service Ontology from UML Diagrams for Semantic Web Services.- A Composition Oriented and Graph-Based Service Search Method.- Ontology and Tool.- DODDLE-OWL: A Domain Ontology Construction Tool with OWL.- Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protege: Card Sorting and Laddering.- Towards a Topical Ontology of Fraud.- Application 2.- Product Data Interoperability Based on Layered Reference Ontology.- Design of Semantically Interoperable Adverse Event Reporting Framework.- Protein Data Sources Management Using Semantics.- Semantic Web Modeling for Virtual Organization: A Case Study in Logistics.- A PSO-Based Web Document Query Optimization Algorithm.- Ontology and Theory.- Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity.- A Pi-Calculus Based Ontology Change Management.- A Comprehensive Study of Inappropriate Hierarchy in WordNet.- Autonomous Ontology: Operations and Semantics OR Local Semantics with Semantic Binding on Foreign Entity.- Peer-to-Peer.- SemreX: A Semantic Peer-to-Peer System for Literature Documents Retrieval.- Personal Information Modeling in Semantic Web.- A Semantic Reputation Mechanism in P2P Semantic Web.- Client and Server Anonymity Preserving in P2P Networks.- Industrial Track 1.- A Map Ontology Driven Approach to Natural Language Traffic Information Processing and Services.- A Knowledge- and Workflow-Based System for Supporting Order Fulfillment Process in the Build-to-Order Supply Chains.- A Distributed IR Model Based on Semantic Web.- Experimental Study of Semantic Contents Mining on Intra-university Enterprise Contents Management System for Knowledge Sharing.- Industrial Track 2.- Semantic Autocompletion.- Ubiquitous Metadata Scouter - Ontology Brings Blogs Outside.- Networked Interactive Photo Annotation and Reminiscence Content Delivery.- Task-Oriented Mobile Service Recommendation Enhanced by a Situational Reasoning Engine.

The Semantic Web – ASWC 2006

Abstract: Invited Talks.- The Semantic Web: A Network of Understanding.- Transformation from OWL Description to Resource Space Model.- Next Generation Semantic Web Applications.- Annotation.- Hierarchical Topic Term Extraction for Semantic Annotation in Chinese Bulletin Board System.- Automatic Annotation Using Citation Links and Co-citation Measure: Application to the Water Information System.- Semantic Annotation Using Horizontal and Vertical Contexts.- Semantic Wiki as a Lightweight Knowledge Management System.- Ontology Alignment.- Partition-Based Block Matching of Large Class Hierarchies.- Towards Quick Understanding and Analysis of Large-Scale Ontologies.- Matching Large Scale Ontology Effectively.- Finding Important Vocabulary Within Ontology.- Document and Recommendation.- Ontology-Based Similarity Between Text Documents on Manifold.- A Formalism of XML Restructuring Operations.- FTT Algorithm of Web Pageviews for Personalized Recommendation.- Social Network and RSS.- D-FOAF: Distributed Identity Management with Access Rights Delegation.- Community Focused Social Network Extraction.- Behavioral Analysis Based on Relations in Weblogs.- UniRSS: A New RSS Framework Supporting Dynamic Plug-In of RSS Extension Modules.- Ontology Integration and Interoperability 1.- Ontology-Based RBAC Specification for Interoperation in Distributed Environment.- Business Process Collaboration Using Semantic Interoperability: Review and Framework.- An Ontology Architecture for Integration of Ontologies.- Automatic Alignment of Ontology Eliminating the Probable Misalignments.- Ontology Integration and Interoperability 2.- Semantic Integration of Enterprise Information: Challenges and Basic Principles.- Application Integration Using Conceptual Spaces (CSpaces).- A New Evaluation Method for Ontology Alignment Measures.- Representing and Reasoning with Application Profiles Based on OWL and OWL/XDD.- Reasoning.- OWL-Full Reasoning from an Object Oriented Perspective.- Visualizing Defeasible Logic Rules for the Semantic Web.- A Reasoning Algorithm for pD*.- Triple Space Computing: Adding Semantics to Space-Based Computing.- Application 1.- Full-Automatic High-Level Concept Extraction from Images Using Ontologies and Semantic Inference Rules.- Dental Decision Making on Missing Tooth Represented in an Ontology and Rules.- Ontology Driven Visualisation of Maps with SVG - Technical Aspects.- Applying CommonKADS and Semantic Web Technologies to Ontology-Based E-Government Knowledge Systems.- A Semantics-Based Protocol for Business Process Transactions.- Information Search.- Fuzzy View-Based Semantic Search.- A Semantic Search Conceptual Model and Application in Security Access Control.- Document Filtering for Domain Ontology Based on Concept Preferences.- Database.- Qualitative Spatial Relation Database for Semantic Web.- Automatic Creation and Simplified Querying of Semantic Web Content: An Approach Based on Information-Extraction Ontologies.- HStar - A Semantic Repository for Large Scale OWL Documents.- Minerva: A Scalable OWL Ontology Storage and Inference System.- Semantic Web Services 1.- Exploring the Flexible Workflow Technology to Automate Service Composition.- Mediation Enabled Semantic Web Services Usage.- Toward Automatic Discovery and Invocation of Information-Providing Web Services.- Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services - A Theorem Proof Approach.- Semantic Web Services 2.- A Semantic Rewriting Approach to Automatic Information Providing Web Service Composition.- Web Services Analysis: Making Use of Web Service Composition and Annotation.- WWW: WSMO, WSML, and WSMX in a Nutshell.- Automatic Generation of Service Ontology from UML Diagrams for Semantic Web Services.- A Composition Oriented and Graph-Based Service Search Method.- Ontology and Tool.- DODDLE-OWL: A Domain Ontology Construction Tool with OWL.- Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protege: Card Sorting and Laddering.- Towards a Topical Ontology of Fraud.- Application 2.- Product Data Interoperability Based on Layered Reference Ontology.- Design of Semantically Interoperable Adverse Event Reporting Framework.- Protein Data Sources Management Using Semantics.- Semantic Web Modeling for Virtual Organization: A Case Study in Logistics.- A PSO-Based Web Document Query Optimization Algorithm.- Ontology and Theory.- Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity.- A Pi-Calculus Based Ontology Change Management.- A Comprehensive Study of Inappropriate Hierarchy in WordNet.- Autonomous Ontology: Operations and Semantics OR Local Semantics with Semantic Binding on Foreign Entity.- Peer-to-Peer.- SemreX: A Semantic Peer-to-Peer System for Literature Documents Retrieval.- Personal Information Modeling in Semantic Web.- A Semantic Reputation Mechanism in P2P Semantic Web.- Client and Server Anonymity Preserving in P2P Networks.- Industrial Track 1.- A Map Ontology Driven Approach to Natural Language Traffic Information Processing and Services.- A Knowledge- and Workflow-Based System for Supporting Order Fulfillment Process in the Build-to-Order Supply Chains.- A Distributed IR Model Based on Semantic Web.- Experimental Study of Semantic Contents Mining on Intra-university Enterprise Contents Management System for Knowledge Sharing.- Industrial Track 2.- Semantic Autocompletion.- Ubiquitous Metadata Scouter - Ontology Brings Blogs Outside.- Networked Interactive Photo Annotation and Reminiscence Content Delivery.- Task-Oriented Mobile Service Recommendation Enhanced by a Situational Reasoning Engine.

An ontological model of device function: industrial deployment and lessons learned

Abstract: Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sharing among engineers plays a crucial role in team-activities in engineering practice. Aiming at promoting engineering knowledge management, we have developed an ontological modeling framework of functional knowledge, which includes an ontology of device and function and a controlled vocabulary. This framework has been successfully deployed in a manufacturing company in daily engineering activities. In the first part of this paper, we discuss some ontological issues concerning the functionality of artifacts, and redefine the notion of function as a role. In the second part, we discuss some lessons learned in the actual deployment of this framework and two extensions based on such experience. One extension is a lexical layer for functional terms intended to help engineers select appropriate functional concepts and to facilitate the use of domain-specific terms familiar to them. The other extension is the establishment of ontological modeling guidelines, which help engineers commit to the relevant ontologies and describe models compliant with them.

Ontological support for a theory-eclectic approach to instructional and learning design

Abstract: Enhancement of learning with technology has been accelerating thanks to the advancement of information technology (IT) and the development of IT standards for learning. The purpose of this study is to build a still more advanced engineering infrastructure of utilization of instructional and learning theories for practitioners in line with such development. This paper discusses a modeling framework for instructional and learning theories based on ontological engineering and the compliance of IMS LD to theoretical knowledge.

An Ontology-Based Annotation Framework for Representing the Functionality of Engineering Devices

Abstract: This paper proposes a metadata schema relating to functionality based on Semantic Web technology for the management of the information content of engineering design documents. The schema enables us to annotate web-documents with RDF metadata, which represents devices as having specific functions. The metadata provide a clear and operational semantics for the functional terms in documents. The metadata schema is based on our own functional ontologies, which we believe to provide effective guidelines for consistent functional annotation. These ontologies have been developed over many years and deployed successfully in industry. We then demonstrate a document search system using the metadata, which enables us to retrieve web-documents using the types of function and relationships defined in the schema rather than more superficial terms. Such function-oriented management of information is especially useful in the conceptual design phase. It allows one to find previous cases of the same function in earlier designs and to find related patents. We go on to discuss the following two issues on the interoperability of the functional knowledge. The first is automatic transformation of the functional model in our modeling framework into a chart-style form commonly used for the FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) activity using a mapping between our ontology and an FMEA ontology. The second is translation of the functional model between our functional vocabulary and other taxonomy of function, that is, Functional Basis proposed by Stone et al. Another mapping between our functional vocabulary and Functional Basis can be done via a richer, generic reference ontology of functions. This mapping would aim at clarifying ontological differences between functional taxonomies and enabling translation between them.

Ontological Modeling Approach to Blending Theories for Instructional and Learning Design

Abstract: This paper proposes a modeling framework for learning and instructional design from the viewpoint of ontological engineering. One of the characteristics of this framework is a theory/paradigm-independent ontology for modeling learning/instruction. This paper discusses how our modeling framework with the theory/paradigm-independent ontology contributes to modeling learning and instruction from a comprehensive viewpoint of various educational theories.

Fundamental Consideration of Role Concepts for Ontology Evaluation.

Abstract: There are many approaches for Ontology Evaluation. We take an approach based on ontological theories for ontology content evaluation from them. In this approach, we need some criteria for judging whether an ontology is good or not. In this paper, we make a fundamental consideration of role concepts and show characteristics of role concepts as important and essential criteria for ontology evaluation.

Role organization model in hozo

Abstract: The establishment of a computational framework of roles contributes effectively to the management of instance models because it provides us with a useful policy for treatment of views and contexts related to roles. In our research, we have developed an ontology building environment, which provides a framework for representation of roles and their characteristics. In this paper, as an extension of the framework, we present a framework for organizing roles according to their context dependencies. We especially focus on defining and organizing compound roles, which depend on several contexts.

An Integrated Framework for Fine-Grained Analysis and Design of Group Learning Activities

Abstract: To evaluate the teaching-learning process in collaborative learning sessions and its educational benefits for learners, we should analyze the interaction process during each session and select appropriate learning goals and tasks for each learner. However, the interaction process is very difficult to analyze, even for experts, and furthermore choosing appropriate goals/tasks can be even more challenging. The main objective of our work is to construct a conceptual structure based on ontology to help the interaction analysis and the learning design. We aim to make the tacit benefits for the learners explicit identifying the relationships among interactions and educational benefits. Through this conceptual structure we show how it is possible to analyze and design effective collaborative learning sessions proposing tasks and goals with justification by learning theories.

Task Ontology-Based Framework for Modeling Users' Activities for Mobile Service Navigation

Abstract: We can get many kinds of mobile services via mobile handsets in Japan. According to an annual report by NTT DoCoMo [1], Japan's premier mobile communications company which manages mobile internet services and occupies about 58% of the market, we have more than 89,000 service sites today. On the other hand, a large number of services cause difficulties in searching, finding and selecting suitable services for consumer's needs. One of the reasons for the difficulties is that menus of the current mobile services are organized from the viewpoint of the domain. Users have to learn the menu system to access the services; hierarchical structure of the menu, relation between name of the category and services in the category. If a user wants to catch the last train, for example, such a domain-oriented menu will guide him/her as follows: “menu”, “latest information”, “traffic”, “train information”, “timetable” and “input start station name”. The user follows the menu and finally reaches the service that provides information about timetable. As this example shows, users have to translate “what they want to do” to “name of the menu” before getting mobile services they want. On the other hand, there is another type of menu which we call “task-oriented menu” [2]. The goal of this research is to realize a task-oriented menu system which enables more efficient mobile

Building an ontology of IT education goals

Abstract: In Japan, the interest in IT education is continuously growing. Most goals of the IT education involve metaability, which cannot be learned by the traditional Japanese instructional methods. It is difficult to design effective IT education material. Moreover, there are only a few specialists in IT education. For this reason, it is necessary and important to provide IT instructors with a powerful help system that can locate and provide access to a variety of useful information resources. We present a system that reconstructs the resources according to the various viewpoints expressed in the ontology of IT education goals. Further, we propose an ontology alignment framework.

Towards ontologies of functionality and semantic annotation for technical knowledge management

Abstract: This research aims at promoting sharing of knowledge about functionality of artifacts among engineers, which tends to be implicit in practice. In order to provide a conceptual viewpoint for modeling and a controlled vocabulary, we have developed an ontological framework of functional knowledge. This framework has been successfully deployed in a manufacturing company. This paper firstly discusses an ontological definition of the concept of function from a device-centered viewpoint. Then, other types of function are discussed in order to place our definition in the related concepts in the literature. Next, as an application of the ontologies, we propose a metadata schema based on the functional ontologies for functional annotation in the Semantic Web. The functional metadata annotated to technical documents show designers intentions behind the documents and contribute to efficient retrieval of the documents. Moreover, task-oriented transformation and interoperability with other schemata can be realized based on the ontologies.

A collaborative learning design environment to integrate practice and learning based on collaborative space ontology and patterns

Abstract: The integration of practice and learning is a key to cultivation of organizational capability for creating or inheriting intellect. In this paper, firstly we address the critical research issues for collaborative space design to integrate practice and learning. Following the discussion, we have built an ontology which specifies the structure of the collaborative learning, described patterns of a collaborative space by reference to the learning theories and developed an intelligent function to support a collaborative space design on ontology-based KM environment, Kfarm, as a foundation for supporting collaborative space design.

Towards a Reference Ontology of Functionality for Interoperable Annotation for Engineering Documents

Abstract: ). It enables engineers to access documents by specifying a function as a metadata query. Such function-oriented management is especially useful in the conceptual design phase to find previous design cases for the same required function and to find related patents. The semantic annotation about function is expected to solve the difficulty of current technical document management based on lexical expressions, that is, many terms (verbs) are used in documents for the same function (and vise versa) without clear semantics. The research issues for realization of functional annotation are (1) to establish

Artificial Intelligence in Education - Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, Volume 200 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Abstract: This publication covers papers presented at the Artificial Intelligence in Education conference 2009 (AIED). AIED2009 is part of an ongoing series of biennial international conferences for top quality research in intelligent systems and cognitive science for educational computing applications. The conference provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of techniques from many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, education, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and the many domain-specific areas for which AIED systems have been designed and evaluated. AIED2009 focuses on the theme Building learning systems that care: from knowledge representation to affective modelling. The key research question is how to tackle the complex issues related to building learning systems that care, ranging from representing knowledge and context to modelling social, cognitive, metacognitive and affective dimensions. This requires multidisciplinary research that links theory and technology from artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computer science with theory and practice from education and the social sciences.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

A Relação entre Processos de Interação e o Desenvolvimento do Aluno em Sessões Colaborativas

Abstract: Resumo: Para avaliar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem em sessoes colaborativas por computador e seus beneficios educacionais, e necessario analisar o processo de interacao durante cada sessao selecionando objetivos e tarefas adequadas para cada estudante. Contudo, a tarefa de analisar o processo de interacao e complexa e, alem disso, escolher tarefas e objetivos adequados pode ser ainda mais dificil. O principal objetivo de nosso trabalho e construir um modelo baseado em ontologias para ajudar na analise das interacoes e na selecao apropriada de objetivos e tarefas oferecendo um mecanismo para gerar recomendacoes de padroes de aprendizado. Atraves deste modelo nos mostramos como e possivel analisar e projetar sessoes efetivas de aprendizagem colaborativa propondo tarefas e objetivos baseados nas teorias de aprendizagem. Abstract: To evaluate the teaching-learning process in CSCL sessions and its educational benefits for learners, we should analyze the interaction process during each session and select appropriate learning goals and tasks for each learner. However, the interaction process is very difficulty to analyze, even for experts, and furthermore choosing appropriate goals/tasks can be even more challenging. The main objective of our work is construct an ontology based model to help the interaction analysis and selection of appropriate goals/tasks offering a mechanism to generate learning pattern recommendations and making the tacit benefits for the learners explicit. Through this model we show how it is possible to analyze and design effective collaborative learning session proposing tasks and goals with justification by learning theories.

Towards Mapping Cultural Differences in CALL

Abstract: This paper describes aspects of a research in progress. The research is concerned with identifying various forms of L1 interference in the process of acquiring L2, namely in terms of cultural differences, and the difficulties these might create for students. We are also working on instructional strategies and activities to help overcome such difficulties. We aim to map this information in an authoring/learning management system (LMS) that could assist both teachers and students, using ontological engineering (OE), a knowledge management methodology. In this paper, using the example of meeting someone for the first time, we illustrate how cultural differences can be at play in this process, briefly introduce OE and illustrate how our LMS might work.

Surmonter l'interférence culturelle et linguistique à l'aide de CALL

Abstract: This research project aims to design a CALL system (Computer-Assisted Language Learning). The goal of the system is to help users overcome cross-linguistic difficulties, that is to say, transfer and interference stemming from a native language (L1) in the process of acquiring a second or foreign language (L2). It is built following an ontological engineering methodology, which is well-known in the artificial intelligence community. In this article, we describe what is cross-linguistic influence, provide a concrete example of what it might entail, and briefly explain how the system might work along with our research methodology.

Building and Evaluation of a Semantic Web System that Provides Teachers with Lesson Plans

Abstract: In Japan, the “Period of Integrated Study” program began in elementary and secondary education in 2002. The “Period of Integrated Study” program emphasizes cultivating the ability to solve various problems in society. Most goals of this program involve meta-ability, which cannot be fully learned by traditional Japanese instructional methods. For this reason, it is necessary and important to provide instructors with a powerful help system that can locate and provide access to a variety of useful information resources. To this end, we have proposed a framework that reconstructs the resources according to various viewpoints based on Semantic Web technology. Further, we proposed a Goal Transition Model to show a skeleton of the transition of instructional goals based on ontologies and built a system that provides teachers with lesson plans effectively by applying this Model. In this paper, we describe support functions of this system and report results of an experiment carried out for evaluation of the functions.

An Ontological Approach to Support Design of Collaborative Workplace Blended of Practice and Education

Abstract: As organizations evolve, it is not only important to design a collaborative workplace in which important knowledge, skill and competence are created and inherited, but also make sure that the necessary capabilities for creating and inheriting these exist. The design of such a workplace can be a series of challenges. One of the reasons is that practical and educational viewpoints must come together. The aim of this research is to conceptualize and support the design of a collaborative workplace that blends both these viewpoints within a computerized support system. To achieve this goal, we propose a collaborative workplace ontology, which we then use to describe collaborative workplace patterns. A conceptualization of collaborative workplace ontology was made based on group formation and interaction in terms of knowledge management theory and learning theory, as well as in terms of the implicit assumptions the theories appear to make in these regards. The collaborative workplace patterns, based on the preceding conceptualization, while blending practical and educational considerations, also enabled to distinguish between the two. This research is consequently concerned with the development of a support system for the design and development of a collaborative workplace.