Ontology building and maintenance in collaborative virtual environments

Abstract

Summary The role of ontologies in the enterprise world is constantly increasing, and they are proving even more necessary in distributed production realities, like in extended logistics, industrial districts, or virtual enterprises. In such realities, a common conceptual basis is necessary to compensate the fragmentation inherent in the underlying industrial models. This paper presents an end‐to‐end framework based on an open, collaborative approach for developing and maintaining business domain ontologies. The framework has been achieved within the European Project BIVEE and has been experimented in two industrial realities: the high‐tech sector of robotics and the more traditional one of furniture. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Evaluation Results of an Ontology-based Design Model of Virtual Environments for Upper Limb Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

“…For example, the ontology of Pellens et al [17] allows modeling the objects that compose the VE. The ontology of Tang and Hanneghan [18], besides modeling objects of the VE, includes information on the players; and that of Missikoff et al [19] adds collaborative features to the VEs. Also, Button et al [20] propose in the domain of rehabilitation a standard for the treatment and care of the knee.…”

“…In a user-centered design of VEs [35], it is very important to take into account the needs of both patients and therapists to increase the probability of success of the designed products [36]. Despite the proposals found in the literature and briefly described in Section 1.2 [17,18,19,20,21,22], there is still a gap between the design phase of VEs and their usage and clinical validation with real patients and therapists. By evaluating the VEULMoR ontology we aim at integrating both the opinions and recommendations of therapists and software developers to firstly, validate the correctness and congruence of the ontology content; and secondly, determine the perceived usefulness of the ontology when designing VE for upper limb motor rehabilitation.…”

“…Tang and Hanneghan [18] present an ontology that allows to document the elements of serious games, such as the settings, the objective, the structure of the game, the players, and the objects. Furthermore, Missikoff et al [19] propose an ontology for the construction and maintenance of collaborative VEs that can be used in the industry, logistics and business aspects.…”

Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications

“…Missikoff et al . present an end‐to‐end framework based on an open, collaborative approach for developing and maintaining business domain ontologies. While modern virtual enterprises require the definition of a common, agreed to, and shared conceptual basis that is captured in a reference ontology, no single methodology has been recognized as the primary solution for building ontologies.…”