KMi Seminars
A Semantic Web-Based Architecture for Analytical Tools
This event took place on Monday 21 February 2005 at 12:30

 
Denilson Sell

Denilson will present the results of his research work developed in KMi for the last year. This talk is also related to a paper submitted to a conference (IEEE CEC 05).

Despite the importance of analytical tools to organisations, they still lack the flexibility needed to solve the requests of decision makers. In this talk, we present how ontologies and semantic Web services were applied on the conception of an architecture for analytical tools. Our architecture provides a seamless integration of business semantics, data sources and services aiming to guide users in an interactive decision making process. In addition, we present OntoDSS, a prototype analytical tool based on this architecture that illustrates some of the functionalities that may be provided to decision makers within an application scenario

 
KMi Seminars
 

Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.