A Collaborative Framework Supporting Ontology Development Based on Agile and Scrum Model

Akkharawoot TAKHOM; Sasiporn USANAVASIN; Thepchai SUPNITHI; Prachya BOONKWAN

doi:10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7041

A Collaborative Framework Supporting Ontology Development Based on Agile and Scrum Model

Akkharawoot TAKHOM, Sasiporn USANAVASIN, Thepchai SUPNITHI, Prachya BOONKWAN

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Ontology describes concepts and relations in a specific domain-knowledge that are important for knowledge representation and knowledge sharing. In the past few years, several tools have been introduced for ontology modeling and editing. To design and develop an ontology is one of the challenge tasks and its challenges are quite similar to software development as it requires many collaborative activities from many stakeholders (e.g. domain experts, knowledge engineers, application users, etc.) through the development cycle. Most of the existing tools do not provide collaborative feature to support stakeholders to collaborate work more effectively. In addition, there are lacking of standard process adoption for ontology development task. Thus, in this work, we incorporated ontology development process into Scrum process as used for process standard in software engineering. Based on Scrum, we can perform standard agile development of ontology that can reduce the development cycle as well as it can be responding to any changes better and faster. To support this idea, we proposed a Scrum Ontology Development Framework, which is an online collaborative framework for agile ontology design and development. Each ontology development process based on Scrum model will be supported by different services in our framework, aiming to promote collaborative activities among different roles of stakeholders. In addition to services such as ontology visualized modeling and editing, we also provide three more important features such as 1) concept/relation misunderstanding diagnosis, 2) cross-domain concept detection and 3) concept classification. All these features allow stakeholders to share their understanding and collaboratively discuss to improve quality of domain ontologies through a community consensus.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E103-D No.12 pp.2568-2577

Publication Date: 2020/12/01

Publicized: 2020/09/04

Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7041

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Software Engineering

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Akkharawoot TAKHOM
  National Electronics and Computer Technology Center,Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
Sasiporn USANAVASIN
  Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
Thepchai SUPNITHI
  National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Prachya BOONKWAN
  National Electronics and Computer Technology Center

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collaborative activities, ontology development, standard, agile, scrum, process engineering

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Akkharawoot TAKHOM, Sasiporn USANAVASIN, Thepchai SUPNITHI, Prachya BOONKWAN, "A Collaborative Framework Supporting Ontology Development Based on Agile and Scrum Model" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E103-D, no. 12, pp. 2568-2577, December 2020, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7041.
Abstract: Ontology describes concepts and relations in a specific domain-knowledge that are important for knowledge representation and knowledge sharing. In the past few years, several tools have been introduced for ontology modeling and editing. To design and develop an ontology is one of the challenge tasks and its challenges are quite similar to software development as it requires many collaborative activities from many stakeholders (e.g. domain experts, knowledge engineers, application users, etc.) through the development cycle. Most of the existing tools do not provide collaborative feature to support stakeholders to collaborate work more effectively. In addition, there are lacking of standard process adoption for ontology development task. Thus, in this work, we incorporated ontology development process into Scrum process as used for process standard in software engineering. Based on Scrum, we can perform standard agile development of ontology that can reduce the development cycle as well as it can be responding to any changes better and faster. To support this idea, we proposed a Scrum Ontology Development Framework, which is an online collaborative framework for agile ontology design and development. Each ontology development process based on Scrum model will be supported by different services in our framework, aiming to promote collaborative activities among different roles of stakeholders. In addition to services such as ontology visualized modeling and editing, we also provide three more important features such as 1) concept/relation misunderstanding diagnosis, 2) cross-domain concept detection and 3) concept classification. All these features allow stakeholders to share their understanding and collaboratively discuss to improve quality of domain ontologies through a community consensus.
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