Speaker: Deborah Stacey

Title: Ontology-Driven Compositional Systems and User Expectations

Abstract:
Ontology-Driven Compositional Systems (ODCSs) are designed to assist a user 
with semi- or fully automatic composition of a desired system. Current 
research with ODCSs has been conducted around the discovery and composition 
of web services and alternatively a bottom-up resource management approach 
to automatic system composition. Research within the Guelph Ontology Team (GOT) 
argues that current ODCSs do not truly satisfy user expectations as the 
semantic knowledge required to make proper discovery, decision-making and 
composition has not been fully represented.

This seminar will introduce the beginning of GOT's work with utilizing the 
inheritance of multiple ontologies to fully represent the functional, data, 
quality & trust, and execution of compositional units within an ODCS.
Furthermore, a case study of fish population modelling is briefly presented.