Active: A Unified Platform for Building Intelligent Web Interaction Assistants

Siri of the Cell: What Biology Could Learn from the iPhone

“…At Siri’s core is a series of ontologies containing knowledge that concerns Siri—answers to questions one would usually ask an iPhone (Guzzoni et al, 2006) (Figure 2B). These ontologies cover knowledge on geography and travel, food and recreation, time and scheduling, and so on.…”

“…Unlike gene ontologies, which are essentially descriptive, Siri’s ontologies are coupled with dynamic reasoning systems that render them active: “Whereas a conventional ontology is a formal representation of domain knowledge with distinct concepts and relations among concepts, an Active Ontology is a processing formalism where distinct processing elements are arranged according to ontology notions; it is an execution environment” (Guzzoni et al, 2006). These active ontologies not only encode entities and relations, but entities are associated with states and relations are associated with rule sets that perform actions within and among entities.…”

“…(B) A subset of an active ontology for event planning (Guzzoni et al, 2006). Red relationships and entities indicate dynamic computation.…”

Integration of heterogeneous robotic systems in a surgical scenario

“…The i-OR are advanced OR that can be used for several procedures, as Minimally Invasive Surgery, Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery or opensurgery. Nevertheless, current i-OR's are complex systems and the individual devices cannot be separated from the i-OR in order to be used separately [1], [2], [3].…”

Using domain knowledge for fostering the collaborative ability of a web dialogue system

“…Relevant examples of intelligent web interaction assistants based on ontologies are the Active platform [8] and the Smartweb system [9].…”