SSP Group Meeting
11am, 28 January, 2003
Room 3.03, Appleton Tower, School of Informatics
Ontology and Reuse in Model Synthesis
Virginia Brilhante
The thesis can be seen as a method for construction, application, and evaluation
of reuse-oriented model synthesis mechanisms enabled by
ontologies. The method comprises the following steps:
- Identify a conceptual model design problem in a certain domain;
- Identify the kind of information used to substantiate models of systems
in the domain;
- Build an ontology from scratch or through reuse of other ontologies, or
simply reuse a suitable one if available, for semantic annotation of
such information;
- Build a mechanism from scratch or through reuse of methods and other mechanisms,
or simply reuse a suitable one if available, for construction of models based
on the annotated information and reuse of existing models;
- Apply the mechanism to efficiently obtain models of systems of interest;
- Evaluate the mechanism's performance.
In the talk I'll summarise how these steps are addressed in the thesis and
the contributions they have given rise to.