An Analysis of Service Ontologies

Services are increasingly shaping the world’s economic activity. Service provision and consumption have been profiting from advances in ICT, but the decentralization and heterogeneity of the involved service entities still pose engineering challenges. One of these challenges is to achieve semantic interoperability among these autonomous entities. Semantic web technology aims at addressing this challenge on a large scale, and has matured over the last years. This is evident from the various efforts reported in the literature in which service knowledge is represented in terms of ontologies developed either in individual research projects or in standardization bodies. This paper aims at analyzing the most relevant service ontologies available today for their suitability to cope with the service semantic interoperability challenge. We take the vision of the Internet of Services (IoS) as our motivation to identify the requirements for service ontologies. We adopt a formal approach to ontology design and evaluation in our analysis. We start by defining informal competency questions derived from a motivating scenario, and we identify relevant concepts and properties in service ontologies that match the formal ontological representation of these questions. We analyze the service ontologies with our concepts and questions, so that each ontology is positioned and evaluated according to its utility. The gaps we identify as the result of our analysis provide an indication of open challenges and future work

RIO Country Report 2015: Bulgaria

The 2015 series of RIO Country Reports analyse and assess the policy and the national research and innovation system developments in relation to national policy priorities and the EU policy agenda with special focus on ERA and Innovation Union. The executive summaries of these reports put forward the main challenges of the research and innovation systems.JRC.J.6-Innovation Systems Analysi

Studies in Ambulatory Care Quality Assessment in the Indian Health Service

This report describes a method designed to assess the quality of ambulatory health care in the Indian Health Service. This evaluation approaches the issue of quality assurance for ambulatory care through three basic performance criteria: 1) the method must be easily and economically incorporated into the existing system; 2) the method must identify areas of deficiency in health care and suggest adaptive programs to correct deficiencies; and 3) the method must view health care from the community perspective and examine the quality of the care actually received.This study design was developed around six methodological design questions: 1) what mode of health care delivery is assessed; 2) what aspect of quality is measured; 3) what is the content of the evaluation; 4) how is quality assessed; 5) from what perspective are the measurements taken; and 6) how are the results analyzed? The results of the above design decisions are then used to develop criteria-based indicators and instruments. The project product is a set of flow charts or process maps and tables which outline in detail, the performance and process criteria, and forms to be used to connect data and index the progress and effectiveness of actual patient status and health care performance. The final stage in the process is to propose a design for field testing the established methodology. The evaluation instrument was successfully completed, and implemented at the field test study sites.For the purpose of improving the pilot study and subsequent evaluations, the designers of this methodology strongly suggest that: 1) audit specific data should include all usual patient status data, complete patient history data, including negative as well as positive progress, and educational counseling plans and outcomes; 2) validity of proposed criteria ought to be supported by controlled clinical studies; and 3) only those elements of care which can actually be changed should be subjected to compliance with performance criteria

Agricultural aviation user requirement priorities

The results are given of a research project pertaining to the development of agricultural aviation user requirement priorities. The raw data utilized in the project was obtained from the National Agricultural Aviation Association. A specially configured poll, developed by the Actuarial Research Corporation was used to solicit responses from NAAA members and others. The primary product of the poll is the specification of seriousness as determined by the respondents for some selected agricultural aviation problem areas identified and defined during the course of an intensive analysis by the Actuarial Research Corporation

Special Experimental Demonstration Project in Adult Basic Education

Grant application to develope a demonstration center to improve adult basic education in the Appalachian Region at Morehead State University submitted in March of 1968

Global innovation in emerging economies

Co-published with RoutledgeThis book addresses the context for location of global research and development (R&D) in emerging economies by multinational corporations (MNCs), and the driving forces behind this trend; performance of global R&D by companies from emerging economies; and national and corporate implications of these new trends for innovation systems. The trends have managerial implications for companies and policy implications for the emerging economies where such R&D is performed, as well as for the industrialized home countries of the companies

Profile: February, 1976. Vol: 8 No: 8

February 1976 employee monthly newsletter printed for employees, their families and friends

A Legal Examination of Revenge Pornography and Cyber-Harassment

This paper examines the current state of the statutes in the United States as they relate to cyber-harassment in the context of revenge porn . Revenge porn refers to websites which cater to those wishing to exploit, harass, or otherwise antagonize their ex partners using pornographic images and videos which were obtained during their relationships. The paper provide examples and illustrations as well as a summary of current statute in the United States. The paper additionally explores some of the various legal remedies available to victims of revenge pornography