[Colloq] Master's Defense - Thursday 11am - Vishesh Duggar

[Rachel Kalweit]

Master's Thesis Defense: Vishesh Duggar

Thursday, Dec. 18 11:00am
Room 366 West Village H

Title: Annotating Decision Analysis using Semantic Web Technologies

Abstract:

In this thesis we use Semantic Web techniques for the formal  
representation of the decision analysis and the Eclipse Process  
Framework (EPF) to coalesce decision making process with a software  
engineering life cycle. In this way, a formal artifact can be produced  
that expresses how and why a decision was made, which can be linked  
into the many other artifacts of the development process. Semantic Web  
search tools may then be employed to find similar decisions so that  
they may be reused. Semantic technology can have a significant impact  
on retrieval, reuse,interoperability, consistency, enforcement of  
policy and validation of decision analyses. We have developed an OWL  
ontology for the basic decision process that we have represented using  
EPF. We integrated the process ontology with our OWL decision analysis  
annotation ontology. Finally, we have used the resulting ontology to  
annotate a sample of decisions and the processes by which they were  
made.