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OPPO: An Ontology for Describing Fine-Grained Data Practices in Privacy Policies of Online Social Networks
Privacy policies outline the data practices of Online Social Networks (OSN)
to comply with privacy regulations such as the EU-GDPR and CCPA. Several
ontologies for modeling privacy regulations, policies, and compliance have
emerged in recent years. However, they are limited in various ways: (1) they
specifically model what is required of privacy policies according to one
specific privacy regulation such as GDPR; (2) they provide taxonomies of
concepts but are not sufficiently axiomatized to afford automated reasoning
with them; and (3) they do not model data practices of privacy policies in
sufficient detail to allow assessing the transparency of policies. This paper
presents an OWL Ontology for Privacy Policies of OSNs, OPPO, that aims to fill
these gaps by formalizing detailed data practices from OSNS' privacy policies.
OPPO is grounded in BFO, IAO, OMRSE, and OBI, and its design is guided by the
use case of representing and reasoning over the content of OSNs' privacy
policies and evaluating policies' transparency in greater detail.Comment: 14 Pages, 6 figures, Ontology Showcase and Demonstrations Track, 9th
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023), co-located with FOIS 2023, 19-20 July,
2023, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canad
Frequent Use Cases Extraction from Legal Texts in the Data Protection Domain
Because of the recent entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a growing of documents issued by the European Union institutions and authorities often mention and discuss various use cases to be handled to comply with GDPR principles. This contribution addresses the problem of extracting recurrent use cases from legal documents belonging to the data protection domain by exploiting existing Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs). An analysis of ODPs that could be looked for inside data protection related documents is provided. Moreover, a first insight on how Natural Language Processing techniques could be exploited to identify recurrent ODPs from legal texts is presented. Thus, the proposed approach aims to identify standard use cases in the data protection field at EU level to promote the reuse of existing formalisations of knowledge
Proximal business intelligence on the semantic web
This is the post-print version of this article. The official version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2010 Springer.Ubiquitous information systems (UBIS) extend current Information System thinking to explicitly differentiate technology between devices and software components with relation to people and process. Adapting business data and management information to support specific user actions in context is an ongoing topic of research. Approaches typically focus on providing mechanisms to
improve specific information access and transcoding but not on how the information
can be accessed in a mobile, dynamic and ad-hoc manner. Although web ontology has been used to facilitate the loading of data warehouses, less research has been carried out on ontology based mobile reporting. This paper explores how business data can be modeled and accessed using the web ontology
language and then re-used to provide the invisibility of pervasive access; uncovering
more effective architectural models for adaptive information system strategies of this type. This exploratory work is guided in part by a vision of business intelligence that is highly distributed, mobile and fluid, adapting to sensory understanding of the underlying environment in which it operates. A proof-of concept mobile and ambient data access architecture is developed in order to further test the viability of such an approach. The paper concludes with an ontology engineering framework for systems of this type – named UBIS-ONTO
Integration of Legacy Appliances into Home Energy Management Systems
The progressive installation of renewable energy sources requires the
coordination of energy consuming devices. At consumer level, this coordination
can be done by a home energy management system (HEMS). Interoperability issues
need to be solved among smart appliances as well as between smart and
non-smart, i.e., legacy devices. We expect current standardization efforts to
soon provide technologies to design smart appliances in order to cope with the
current interoperability issues. Nevertheless, common electrical devices affect
energy consumption significantly and therefore deserve consideration within
energy management applications. This paper discusses the integration of smart
and legacy devices into a generic system architecture and, subsequently,
elaborates the requirements and components which are necessary to realize such
an architecture including an application of load detection for the
identification of running loads and their integration into existing HEM
systems. We assess the feasibility of such an approach with a case study based
on a measurement campaign on real households. We show how the information of
detected appliances can be extracted in order to create device profiles
allowing for their integration and management within a HEMS
Data protection regulation ontology for compliance
The GDPR is the current data protection regulation in Europe. A significant market demand has been created ever since GDPR came into force. This is mostly due to the fact that it can go outside of European borders if the data processed belongs to European citizens. The number of companies who require some type of
regulation or standard compliance is ever-increasing and the need for cyber security and
privacy specialists has never been greater.
Moreover, the GDPR has inspired a series of similar regulations all over the world. This further increases the market demand and makes the work of companies who work internationally more complicated and difficult to scale.
The purpose of this thesis is to help consultancy companies to automate their work by using semantic structures known as ontologies. By doing this, they can increase productivity and reduce costs. Ontologies can
store data and their semantics (meaning) in a machine-readable format.
In this thesis, an ontology has been designed which is meant to help consultants generate checklists (or runbooks) which they
are required to deliver to their clients. The ontology is designed to handle concepts such as security measures, company information, company architecture, data sensitivity, privacy mechanisms, distinction between technical and organisational measures, and even conditionality.
The ontology was evaluated using a litmus test. In the context of this ontology, the litmus test was composed of a collection of competency questions. Competency questions were collected based on the use-cases of the ontology. These questions were later translated to SPARQL queries
which were run against a test ontology. The ontology has successfully passed the given litmus test. Thus, it can be concluded that the implemented functionality matches the proposed design
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