Applying experienceware to support ontology deployment
Yannis Kalfoglou, David J. Robertson · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2000
Experienceware is a paradigm which emerged in the late eighties and evolved during the nineties, resulting in technologies such as experience factories and their constituent experience bases. These are designed to manage experiences collected throughout the life-cycle of a software project. Ontologies emerged round about the same time as a way to represent consensual knowledge about a domain of interest in reusable and sharable formats. Despite their diverse origins and ways of development, there is an overlap of scope regarding one of their goals: to support reuse. In this paper we make use of this overlap by applying the experience factories paradigm to ontology deployment and in particular, to support ontology verification. 1. Motivation In knowledge engineering, the study of ontologies is an attempt to prescribe appropriate, restricted formal languages for describing a target problem or domain. The idea is that by charting these in advance we make it easier for others to begin de...