• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.95-118
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• 2011

In developing information systems, conceptual modeling is among the most fundamental means. The importance attributed to conceptual modeling has not only given rise to a lot of modeling methods, but also to the "yet another modeling approach (YAMA)" syndrome and the "not another modeling approach (NAMA)" hysteria. Criticism of conceptual modeling methods usually targets their lacking of theoretical foundations. In response to such criticism, various approaches towards theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling have been proposed so far. One of the recent responses to the quest for theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling is the reference to the philosophical ontology. The currently most prominent of diverse approaches towards ontological foundations of conceptual modeling appears to be the Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) ontology. Recent approaches attempt to regard BWW ontology as another conceptual data model as well as a criterion for evaluating various conceptual models. However, unfortunately, relatively few researches have been made on interoperability between the Entity-Relationship (ER) model, which is the most dominant conceptual data model, and ontology based model. In this paper, we investigate the interoperability between ontology and the ER model. In detail we (i) reclassify components of ER model with respect to ontology concepts, (ii) identify some components that cannot be directly represented in ontology notation, and (iii) present alternative representations to the components to acquire ontologically clear ER diagrams. Additionally, we (iv) present a set of mapping rules for converting the ontologically clear ER diagram into the corresponding ontology. In a case study, we show the process of converting an ER diagram for a concise Project Management System (PMS) into the ontologically clear ER diagram and the corresponding ontology. We also describe an experiment that we undertook to test whether users understand the Ontologically-Clear ER diagram better.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.254-259
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• 2008

Uncertainty of result of context awareness always exists in any context-awareness computing. This falling-off in accuracy of context awareness result is mostly caused by the imperfectness and incompleteness of sensed data, because of this reasons, we must improve the accuracy of context awareness. In this article, we propose a novel approach to model the uncertain context by using ontology and context reasoning method based on Bayesian Network. Our context aware processing is divided into two parts; context modeling and context reasoning. The context modeling is based on ontology for facilitating knowledge reuse and sharing. The ontology facilitates the share and reuse of information over similar domains of not only the logical knowledge but also the uncertain knowledge. Also the ontology can be used to structure learning for Bayesian network. The context reasoning is based on Bayesian Networks for probabilistic inference to solve the uncertain reasoning in context-aware processing problem in a flexible and adaptive situation.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.257-287
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• 2015

본 연구는 패싯 이론을 기반으로 한 온톨로지 구축방법을 제안한다. 스마트폰 온톨로지를 설계하는 과정에서 패싯 분류체계를 적용하여 온톨로지 모델링에 있어서 패싯 분석의 활용가능성을 점검하였다. 랑가나단과 CRG의 패싯 분류 이론에 기반하여 '유형', '사양', '기능', '작업', '상품', '개인', '기업', '장소', '시간'의 스마트폰 기본 패싯을 설계하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 패싯 구조 기반 온톨로지는 상품관련 다양한 클래스의 계층구조를 개념적으로 이해하고 클래스와 속성의 다각적 관계를 체계적으로 파악하는데 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2020

Spatial experiences in route finding, such as the ability of finding low-traffic routes, exert a significant influence on travel time in big cities; therefore, the spatial experiences of seasoned individuals such as taxi drivers in route finding can be useful for improving route-finding algorithms and preventing using routes having considerable traffic. In this regard, a spatial experience-based route-finding algorithm is introduced through ontology in this paper. To this end, different methods of modeling experiences are investigated. Then, a modeling method is chosen for modeling the experiences of drivers for route finding depending on the advantages of ontology, and an ontology based on the taxi drivers' experiences is proposed. This ontology is employed to create an ontology-based route-finding algorithm. The results are compared with those of Google maps in terms of route length and travel time at peak traffic time. According to the results, although the route lengths of route-finding method based on the ontology of drivers' experiences in three cases (from nine cases) are greater than that based on Google maps, the travel times are shorter in most cases, and in some routes, the difference in travel time reaches only 10 minutes.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.29-40
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• 2014

Conceptual Modeling is the process of abstracting a model from a real or proposed system. It is probably the most important aspect of a simulation study. Relate works show that the elementary developers devoted little time to understanding how the systems actually worked, namely they didn't build appropriate conceptual model. Thus, the result of simulation is inconsistent because it depends on developer's competence. Although many researchers suggested various techniques enabling developer to build conceptual model, there were several limitations. In this study, to overcome the limitations of existing techniques, we proposed COMBINE-DES (COnceptual Model BuildINg framEwork using ontology for Discrete Event Simulation). The COM-BINE-DES supports expediting the conceptual modeling with Solution ontology generated by Domain ontology and Simulation ontology. Moreover, it provides consistent simulation result regardless of repeated modeling.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.167-177
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• 2011

This paper describes an ontology-based intelligent CAD system for injection mold design, which has been developed based on a commercial CAD system called Unigraphics and an ontological framework for representing the implicit design knowledge as well as the explicit based on the extended function-behavior-structure (FBS) engineering design model that includes the constraint. The system also provides various convenient solid modeling capabilities for mold design and the design process modeling capability that facilitates mold redesign process.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제12D권3호
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• pp.365-374
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• 2005

B2B 전자거래 환경에서는 다양한 공급자들의 부품 라이브러리를 통합하여 단일 인터페이스를 제공하는 중개 시스템이 요구된다. 그런데 각부품 라이브러리들은 서로 이질적이어서 자동 통합하기 어렵다. 기존의 온톨로지 기반 자동 정보 통합 연구에서는 온톨로지들이 서로 다른 방식으로 작성되는 것을 방지하기 어렵기 때문에 이질성 해결을 위한 매핑이 복잡해지고, 따라서 제한적인 수준에서의 자동 정보 통합 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 Guarino의 상위 온톨로지 이론을 바탕으로 부품 라이브러리 온톨로지 개발에 이용할 수 있는 지식 모델링 프레임워크를 제안한다. 이 프레임워크는 존재론적 본성에 기반한 엄밀한 논리적 의미와 적용 원리가 부여된 부품 라이브러리 지식 모델링 프리미티브를 제공함으로써 온톨로지 개발자들이 대상 도메인의 지식을 체계적으로 분류하고 일관되게 구조화할 수 있도록 도와준다. 결과적으로, 작성되는 온톨로지들이 서로 비교 가능하고 균질해져 온톨로지 간 매핑이 단순해지고 정형화된다. 이를 바탕으로 온톨로지 자동 병합 알고리즘을 쉽게 개발할 수 있다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.309-327
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• 2011

Even though several methodologies for SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) have been proposed, in practical aspects most of them have some problems since they fail to propose specific policies in definition and identification of a service. This paper proposes a service modeling methodology. SOMO(Service Oriented Modeling using Ontology), which draws proper services in the process of defining and identifying services. SOMO defines a service ontology based on service definition and characteristics in SOA. The service drawing process consists of 3 steps : requirement analysis, service identification, and service definition. SOMO is expected to increase the degree of reuse and facilitates the definition and search of services by using service ontology. In addition, it clearly allows the definition and identification of services, satisfying the user requirements.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.873-885
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• 2015

Today, It is difficult to search the various and numerous information efficiently. For this reason, Semantic Web emerged to provide searching services more easily through the structuring of a variety of unstructured format data and the definition of meaningful relationships between information. Especially, definition of relationship and meaning among resources is significant to share and infer related information. Ontology modeling plays just that role. Weapon parts development information is unstructured and dispersed all over. There are many difficulties in finding desired information, leading to getting improper outcomes. In this paper, we present an intuitive ontology model with weapon parts development information including the multi-dimensional information analysis and expansion of the relevant information. This study build up a ontology model through creating class and hierarchy about parts information and defining the properties of classes with Ontology Development 101[1] procedures using Protégé tools. The ontology model provides users with a platform on which search of needed information can be easy and efficient.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권2호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2006

협업적 제품 설계 환경에서는 여러 설계자가 작업에 참여하기 때문에 설계자간의 원활한 의사 소통이 필수적인 요소이다. 즉, 제품 설계에 내재되어 있는 다른 설계자의 설계의도를 파악할 수 있어야 하고, 각 설계자마다 사용하고 있는 상이한 모델링 용어에 대한 의미적 처리가 필요하다. 시맨틱 웹에서 온톨로지는 의미 정보를 명시적으로 표현할 수 있기 때문에 데이터와 서비스에 대한 통합되고 일관된 접근을 가능하게 한다. 따라서 제품을 여러 설계자가 설계하는 협업적 환경에서 온톨로지를 사용한다면 조립체내의 내포된 공학적 관계들, 공간적 관계들, 그리고 접합 관계들이 명확하게 표현되고, 추론을 통해 설계자의 의도가 파악되어 설계자간의 의사소통이 원활하게 이루어질 수 있다. 본 논문에서 는 조립체를 온톨로지를 이용하여 표현함으로써 협업적 환경에서 조립체 설계정보를 공유할 수 있는 시맨틱 조립체 모델링 프레임워크를 제안한다. 시맨틱 조립체 모델링 프레임워크에서는 조립체 관계 모델(Assembly Relationship Model, ARM)을 OWL(Web Ontology Language)와 SWRL(Semantic Web Rule Language)로 표현한다. 이를 통해 조립체 내에 내포된 공학적 관계들, 공간적 관계들, 그리고 접합 관계들이 명확하게 표현되고, 추론되어 설계 의도가 파악된다.