A Generic Software Framework for Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Models for Driving Applications.
Colin Puleston, James A. Cunningham, Alan L. Rector · 2008
Abstract. We describe a generic software framework for building dynamic domain-models that can drive both domain-specific and domain-neutral software applications. Models are hybrid. They combine standard ontological representations with extra-ontological representation to provide modes of interaction not fully specifiable within standard ontological formalisms. A core model-building framework has been developed along with some domain-neutral application software. A specifically temporal extension of this framework has been used in the representation of patient-record data. We use both this temporal extension and the patient-record use-case to illustrate the core modelbuilding framework, the motivation for its development, and the rationale for the design decisions that it embodies. 1