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Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?

Huge ontologies and taxonomies that attempt to boil the ocean and describe 'the sum of human knowledge' tend to make me deeply uncomfortable. At the other end of the scale, though, there is clearly a place for reaching some shared understanding on how we describe things. Where does the line...

Tags: Tim O'Reilly, Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues

Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...

Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Computing Semantic Similarity Using Ontologies

Determining semantic similarity of two sets of words that describe two entities is an important problem in web mining search and recommendation systems, targeted advertisement and domains that need semantic content matching. Traditional Information Retrieval approaches, even when extended to include semantics by performing the similarity comparison on concepts instead...

Tags: Semantics, Ontology, Computing, Similarity, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-07-06

Hakia adds PubMed, enhances medical search

In April this year, New York-based Hakia announced an enhancement to their beta web search that focussed upon providing timely and accurate health information to consumers; "For the first time, users will start to get credibility-stamped search results in full view, instead of just popularity-ranked...

Tags: Abstract, Health Care, Ontology, Hakia, PubMed, Heart Attack, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-12

A Process Ontology for Business Intelligence

This paper presents oXPDL, a process interchange ontology based on the standardised XML Process Definition Language XPDL. XPDL was introduced to allow process model exchange between information systems, most of which are based on proprietary workflow models. In its current form, XPDL allows only syntactic vendor-specific extensions without clear semantics,...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Ontology, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, oXPDL Ontology, Strategy, XML, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-04-01

hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties

New York-based semantic search company hakia will today use the Search Engine Strategies Conference to announce that their Ontological Semantic technology, OntoSem, is available for licensing. Illinois-based RiverGlass, Inc. is the first licensee, and will work to enhance their existing real-time analytics solutions with OntoSem. I spoke...

Tags: Lexicon, Ontology, OntoSem, RiverGlass Inc., Hakia, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Semantic Views for Controlled Access to the Semantic Web

The Semantic Web provides a good data integration and knowledge representation framework enabling sophisticated applications to reason and infer new information. Controlled access to data is extremely important when such data is being shared among multiple users. This paper describes a framework that provides selective access to RDF data by...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Specification, Ontology, View Specification, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management

White papers 2008-02-26

A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection

This paper has produced an ontology specifying a model of computer attacks. The ontology is based upon an analysis of over 4,000 classes of computer intrusions and their corresponding attack strategies and is categorized according to: system component targeted, means of attack, consequence of attack and location of attacker. The...

Tags: Intrusion Detection, Computer Attack, Ontology, Computer, Strategy, Productivity, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Integration of Semantic Resources and Tools for Business Intelligence

This paper describes the actual state of development of semantic resources, including a temporal ontology, and technologies in the context of a European R&D project dealing with Business Intelligence. The paper describes in some details the actual state of ontology development for guiding information extraction onto an ontology population task....

Tags: Business Intelligence, Ontology, Tool, Integration, University Of Saarbrücken, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-10-11

Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence BI requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed statistical BI models and tools. The massive amount of information available to business analysts makes information extraction and other natural language processing tools key...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language, Extraction, Ontology, University Of Sheffield, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Databases, Strategy, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance

White papers 2007-08-24

Developing Adaptive Composite Business Services Using WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Part 3 - CBS Modeling, Ontology Editing, and Policy Simulation

This series of paper discusses the end-to-end process of creating composite business services with IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric Version 6.0.2.Part 1 introduces the idea of composite business services, and how WebSphere Business Services Fabric supports the development of these services. Part 2, explains how WebSphere Business Services Fabric can...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Ontology, Modeling, IBM Corp., Business Service, Application Servers, Middleware, Research & Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

White papers 2007-08-22

OPAS: An Ontology-Based Library Help Desk Service

This paper argues that ontological knowledge technologies can be utilized in authoring question-answer services. To ease the content indexer's work, the paper proposes a system that provides semi-automatic semantic indexing for annotating question-answer pairs, case-based reasoning techniques for finding similar questions and integration of external information sources via ontologies. A...

Tags: Help Desk, Ontology, University Of Helsinki, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-04-02

On Enriching Ajax With Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case

With the dawn of Ajax the capabilities of tracking user behavior multiplied. The same holds for the capabilities of adapting the user interface in a Web browser. To provide meaningful adaptation, the events, context and elements of an Ajaxified Portal must be given meaning. This paper shows the use of...

Tags: Web, Use Case, Adaptation, Personalization, Ontology, AJAX, Portals, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management

White papers 2007-03-16

Ajax for Networks and Ontologies

Databases contribute to the management of huge biological data, and the associated tools with their sophisticated algorithms contribute to the analysis of the huge data. Databases and tools have been publicly released as web services for biologists to accelerate biological studies. Although these web services have become essential for biological...

Tags: Technique, Web, Network, Web Service, Ontology, Productivity, Web Services, Channel Management, AJAX, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2006-12-04

Querying a Geographic Database Using an Ontology-Based Methodology

The work discussed in this paper presents a mechanism that allows different community users access the same geographic database without knowing its particular internal structure. The authors used geographic ontologies to support a common and shared understanding of a specific domain: the coral reefs. Using these ontologies descriptions that represent...

Tags: Database, Ontology, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-10-02

Probabilistic Ontologies for Efficient Resource Sharing in Semantic Web Services

Service Oriented Architecture SOA is a key technology to support interoperability among data and processing resources. Semantic interoperability requires mapping between vocabularies of independently developed resources, a task fraught with uncertainty. Probabilistic ontologies enable representation of knowledge in domains characterized by uncertainty. As such, they promise to improve the quality...

Tags: Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-20

Towards Unified QoS/SLA Ontologies

This paper reports on work in progress to produce a unified Quality of Service QoS ontology This ontology must be applicable to the main scenarios currently identified such as QoS-based Web Services selection, QoS monitoring and QoS adaptation. An evaluation of existing research in the field of QoS and Service...

Tags: SLA, QoS, Ontology, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-06-30

An Ontology for Network Security Attacks

The paper first considers network security services and then reviews threats, vulnerabilities and failure modes. This review is based on standard texts, using well-known concepts, categorizations, and methods, e.g. risk analysis using asset-based threat profiles and vulnerability profiles attributes. The review is used to construct a framework which is then...

Tags: Network, Ontology, Attack, University Of Technology Sydney, Network Security, Networking, Security

White papers 2006-06-10

The Semantic Web for disillusioned advocates

The Semantic Web for disillusioned advocatesOntology of EverythingIf we an "OOE", then time as we know it would come to a screeching halt! :-)Proving point #5: People aren't perfect...that should have read, "If we HAD an OOE...... and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be an automobile.The Ontology of...

Tags: Strategy, ontology, Semantic Web

Discussion threads 2006-06-09

Towards a Service-Oriented Measurement Infrastructure

The importance of software measurement during the software development process is generally accepted, nowadays. Unfortunately, in practice common software measurement tools find small acceptance due to their high costs, inflexible structures, and therewith-unclear cost/benefit ratio. On this account this paper introduces a framework creating a measurement infrastructure by means of...

Tags: Ontology, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

White papers 2006-05-24