• Journal of Information Management
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.87-109
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• 2003

Continual attempts to accumulate and apply information eventually gave birth to the concept of the "Semantic Web". Thus, the "Semantic Web" can be defined as a product of mankind's desire to standardize information. At the same time, the term provides "a method that standardizes mankind's concept of linguistical expression", and can be noted as an effort to combine such methods into a standard web environment that may materialize to form a catalogue. This study introduced RDF schema, ontology languages for the semantic web, and ontology-based systems. The purpose of the study was to construct a system based on the semantic web environment's ontology by utilizing the ontology schema derived from the facettype Art and Architecture Thesaurus(AAT). The aforementioned ontology schema is based on the Web Ontology Language(OWL), which is being widely considered the standard ontology language for the W3C-centered semantic web environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.183-190
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• 2012

This study constructs an expert search system which has a mutual cooperation function based on thesis and author profile. The proposed methodology is as follows. First, we propose weighting method which can search a keyword and the most relevant keyword. Second, we propose a method which can search the experts efficiently with this weighting method. On the preferential basis, keywords and author profiles are extracted from the papers, and experts can be searched through this method. This system will be available to many fields of social network. However, this information is distributed to many systems. We propose a method using multi-ontology to integrate distributed data. The multi-ontology is composed of meta ontology, instance ontology, location ontology and association ontology. The association ontology is constructed through analysis of keyword association dynamically. An expert network is constructed using this multi-ontology, and this expert network can search expert through association trace of keyword. The expert network can check the detail area of expertise through the research list which is provided by the system.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.71-92
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• 2008

Currently, hotel search engines may help travelers find hotels, but the returned set of information is usually not satisfactory to them. It is because the engines do not understand what travelers want exactly and cannot deal with the travelers' interest which is expressed in various terms, even including some ambiguous ones. The objective of this research is to build hotel ontology using currently available semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL and SWRL and to show how it can be used to help travelers find hotels of their interest. To that end, we analyzed available hotel-related ontologies and investigated typical terms which are used when searching for hotels in the Q&A communities. Based on the results of the analysis and investigation, we designed hotel domain ontology which consists of Objective Concepts Ontology(OCO), Universal Concepts Ontology(UCO), and Evaluation Concepts Ontology(ECO). To demonstrate the use of the ontology for a hotel search, we developed a Semantic Hotel Search System (SHSS).

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.67-75
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• 2012

For the last few years, LBS has attracted considerable attention from many industries and societies as a result of propagated smart devices. LBS has a high utilization of mobile users as it uses user positions as a significant factor. Current LBS has only taken user position into account and it makes some limits. So, it is necessarily suggested that support for personalized services which consider user's motion, traffic condition, weather condition, time, personal information and preferences that have a huge impact on the accuracy. The purpose of this study is to design the inference systems with user's motion, preferences and schedules and provide users with the personalized information. To achieve this, Movement Ontology, User Profile Ontology, Schedule Ontology and Work Ontology should be constructed and based on this, smart applications were developed. Developed applications induced appropriately recommended results according to user's preference, motion and directions.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.372-394
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• 2009

This study investigates the ontology-based public participation GIS(PPGIS). The major reason that ontology-based GIS has attracted attention in semantic communication in recent year is due to the wide availability of geographical variable and the imminent need for turning such recommendation into useful geographical knowledge. Therefore, this study has been focused on designing and implementing the pilot tested system for public participation GIS. The applicability of the pilot tested was validated through a simulation experiment for history tourism in Guri city Gyeongi-do, Focused on the methodology, the life cycle model which involves regional statues and user recognition, can be viewed as an important preprocessing step(specification, conceptualization, formalization, integration and implementation) for recommended geographical knowledge discovery by axiom. Focusing on practicality, ontology in this study would be recommended for geographical knowledge through reasoning. In addition, ontology-based public participation GIS would show integration epistemological and ontological approach, and be utilized as an index which is connected with semantic communication. The results of the pilot system was applied to the study area, which was a part of scenario. The model was carried out using axiom of logical constraint in the meaning of human-activity.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.149-162
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• 2014

Course guidance is a mentoring process which is performed before students register for coming classes. The course guidance plays a very important role to students in checking degree audits of students and mentoring classes which will be taken in coming semester. Also, it is intimately involved with a graduation assessment or a completion of ABEEK certification. Currently, course guidance is manually performed by some advisers at most of universities in Korea because they have no electronic systems for the course guidance. By the lack of the systems, the advisers should analyze each degree audit of students and curriculum information of their own departments. This process often causes the human error during the course guidance process due to the complexity of the process. The electronic system thus is essential to avoid the human error for the course guidance. If the relation data model-based system is applied to the mentoring process, then the problems in manual way can be solved. However, the relational data model-based systems have some limitations. Curriculums of a department and certification systems can be changed depending on a new policy of a university or surrounding environments. If the curriculums and the systems are changed, a scheme of the existing system should be changed in accordance with the variations. It is also not sufficient to provide semantic search due to the difficulty of extracting semantic relationships between subjects. In this paper, we model a course mentoring ontology based on the analysis of a curriculum of computer science department, a structure of degree audit, and ABEEK certification. Ontology-based course guidance system is also proposed to overcome the limitation of the existing methods and to provide the effectiveness of course mentoring process for both of advisors and students. In the proposed system, all data of the system consists of ontology instances. To create ontology instances, ontology population module is developed by using JENA framework which is for building semantic web and linked data applications. In the ontology population module, the mapping rules to connect parts of degree audit to certain parts of course mentoring ontology are designed. All ontology instances are generated based on degree audits of students who participate in course mentoring test. The generated instances are saved to JENA TDB as a triple repository after an inference process using JENA inference engine. A user interface for course guidance is implemented by using Java and JENA framework. Once a advisor or a student input student's information such as student name and student number at an information request form in user interface, the proposed system provides mentoring results based on a degree audit of current student and rules to check scores for each part of a curriculum such as special cultural subject, major subject, and MSC subject containing math and basic science. Recall and precision are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The recall is used to check that the proposed system retrieves all relevant subjects. The precision is used to check whether the retrieved subjects are relevant to the mentoring results. An officer of computer science department attends the verification on the results derived from the proposed system. Experimental results using real data of the participating students show that the proposed course guidance system based on course mentoring ontology provides correct course mentoring results to students at all times. Advisors can also reduce their time cost to analyze a degree audit of corresponding student and to calculate each score for the each part. As a result, the proposed system based on ontology techniques solves the difficulty of mentoring methods in manual way and the proposed system derive correct mentoring results as human conduct.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.401-406
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• 2009

이 논문에서는 저장소에 독립적인 SPARQL-to-SQL변환 시스템 모델의 비용 평가를 수행한다. 시맨틱 웹이 발전하면서 이를 기술하기 위한 다양한 웹 온톨로지 언어들이 제안되었고 이를 저장 및 검색하기 위한 관계형 데이터베이스 기반의 저장소와 SPARQL과 같은 질의 언어가 개발되었다. SPARQL의 활용도가 높아짐에 따라 관계형 데이터베이스에 저장된 웹 온톨로지 데이터를 질의하기 위해서는 SPARQL을 SQL로 변환하기 위한 알고리즘이 필요하다. 그러나 기존에 제안된 변환 알고리즘들은 몇 가지 해결해야 할 문제점을 가지고 있는데 그 중 변환 알고리즘이 저장소에 종속적이라는 문제점 때문에 변환 알고리즘의 활용도가 떨어진다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 기존 논문에서는 저장소에 독립적으로 변환 알고리즘을 활용할 수 있는 시스템 모델을 제안하였으며 프로토타입을 구현하여 제안 모델을 통한 질의 결과의 정확성을 측정하였다. 또한, 저장소의 종속적인 모델과 독립적인 모델간의 정성적 평가를 통하여 저장소에 독립적인 모델이 여러 측면에서 활용도가 높다는 것을 평가하였다. 그러나 기존 논문에서는 제안한 시스템 모델에 대한 명확한 정량적 평가가 이루어지지 않았다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 비용 평가 모델을 정의하여 제안한 시스템 모델의 효율성을 정량적으로 평가한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.249-267
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• 2004

Although MARC can define the detail cataloguing data, it has complex structures and frameworks to represent bibliographic information. On account of these idiosyncratic features of MARC, XML DTD or RDF/S that supports simple hierarchy of conceptual vocabularies cannot capture MARC formalism effectively. This study implements bibliographic ontology by means of abstracting conceptual relationships between bibliographic vocabularies of MARC. The bibliographic ontology is formalized with OWL that can represent the logical relations between conceptual elements and specify cardinality and property value restrictions. The bibliographic ontology in this study will provide metadata for cataloguing data and resolve compatibility problems between cataloguing systems. And it can also contribute the development of next generation bibliographic information system using semantic Web services.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.953-957
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• 2009

This paper proposes a keyword-based query translation system for the semantic web. With the relationship between keywords and ontology structure information, the system converts keyword based queries into queries written by formal query language which is appropriate for the semantic web. As a result, casual web users could not only express queries easily but also obtain the better result.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.265-269
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• 2006

차세대 웹의 중심기술인 시맨틱 웹을 구현하기 위해서는 컴퓨터가 지식을 추론하고 처리할 수 있게 하기 위한 지식표현방법인 온톨로지가 필수적으로 요구된다. 이러한 온톨로지 생성의 중요성이 점차 커져 가는 실정에 따라, 생성된 온톨로지들의 재사용을 위한 방법이 관련 연구들 사이에 중요한 과제로 떠오르기 시작되었다. 본 논문에서는 온톨로지의 재사용을 효율적으로 하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 우리가 제안하는 방법은 온툴로지를 사용자가 이해하기 쉽고 편집이 용이한 그래프 형태로 표현하는 방법으로 온톨로지를 UML로 변환하여 UML을 통한 온툴로지 재사용 방안을 제안한다. 우리가 제안하는 방법은 다음과 같다. OMG의 MDA 개념을 기반으로 기존에 생성된 온톨로지를 XML 파서를 이용하는 방법을 통하여 XMI로 변환한다. XMI로 변환된 온툴로지는 UML 도구를 사용하여 재사용 할 수 있다. UML로 변환된 온톨로지는 위 과정을 역으로 다시 수행함으로써 온톨로지로 변환된다. 이렇게 UML로 변환된 온톨로지는 UML의 장점을 그대로 가지게 된다. 이미 널리 사용되고 가독성과 편집력 그리고 상호 운용성이 높은 UML을 이용하여 온톨로지의 재 사용성을 높이고자 하는데 있다. 즉 사용자가 직관적으로 온톨로지의 전체 구조와 의미를 파악하는데 도움을 주며 편집 또한 용이하다. 이러한 방법을 바탕으로 UML을 통해 온톨로지를 쉽게 사용자의 온톨로지에 대한 이해와 수정을 도와 온톨로지의 재 사용성을 높이고 사용자간의 공유를 용이하게 만들 수 있다.