Measuring Psychological Impact on Group Ontology Design and Development: An Empirical Approach

Expert Systems with Applications

2015

a b s t r a c tThe paper presents the main results of the KOMET (Knowledge and cOntent structuring via METhods of collaborative ontology design) project, which aims to develop a novel paradigm for knowledge structuring based on the interplay between cognitive psychology and ontology engineering. By the knowledge structure (a conceptual model) we define the main domain concepts and relations between them in the form of a graph, map or diagram. This approach considers individual cognitive styles and uses recent advances in knowledge engineering and conceptual structuring; it aims to create new, consistent and structurally holistic knowledge bases for various areas of science and technology. Two stages of research have been completed: research into correlations between the expert's individual cognitive style and the peculiarities of the expert's subject domain ontology development; and research into correlations between the expert's individual cognitive style and the group ontology design (including design accomplished by groups of experts with either similar or different cognitive styles). The results of these research stages can be applied to organizing collaborative ontology design (especially for research and learning purposes), data structuring and other group analytical work. Implications for practice are briefly delineated.

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Ontology design and individual cognitive peculiarities: A pilot study

Expert Systems with Applications

2015

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“…Almost all the students had 1-2 years' experience of research in computer science, and were in their fifth year of study on the Masters programme. The preliminary results of this study were partly discussed in Gavrilova et al (2013). The domain "informatics" was chosen as all the students are young professionals in this area.…”

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Cognitive Style Affecting Visual Ontology Design - KOMET Project Results

Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

2014

The paper presents the main results of research performed within the KOMET (Knowledge and cOntent structuring via METhods of collaborative ontology design) project that was aimed at developing a novel paradigm for knowledge structuring. By knowledge structure we define the main domain concepts and relations between them in a form of graph, map or diagram. Knowledge structures represent conceptual models. This approach considers individual cognitive styles and uses recent advances in knowledge engineering and conceptual structuring; it aims at creating new consistent and structurally holistic knowledge bases for various areas of science and technology. Research into correlations between the expert's individual cognitive style and the peculiarities of expert's subject domain ontology development has been completed. Implications for practice are briefly delineated. 207A. Gavrilova T. and A. Leshcheva I.. Cognitive Style Affecting Visual Ontology Design -KOMET Project Results.

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Collective Ontologies Design and Development

2014 Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems

2014