• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.718-722
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• 2008

Ontology plays an important role of the Semantic Web to describe meaning and reasoning of resources. Ontology has more rich expressive power through OWL that is a next standard representation language recommended by W3C. As the Semantic Web is widely known, an amount of information resources on the Web is growing rapidly and the related information resources are placed in distributed systems on the Web. So, for providing seamless services without the awareness of far distance, efficient management of the distributed information resources is required. Especially, sear ching fast for local repositories that include data related to user's queries is important to the performance of systems in the distributed environment. In this paper, first, we propose an index structure to search local repositories related to queries in the distributed Semantic Web. Second, we propose a query rewriting strategy to extend given user's query using various expression of OWL. Through the proposed index and query strategy, we can utilize various expressions of OWL and find local repositories related to all query patterns on the Semantic Web.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.731-742
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• 2007

Self-growing software is a software system that has the capability of evolving its functionalities and configurations by itself based on dynamically monitored situations. Self-growing software is especially necessary for intelligent service robots, which must have the capability to monitor their surrounding environments and provide appropriate behaviors for human users. However, it is hard to anticipate all situations that robots face with, and it is hard to make robots have all functionalities for various environments. In addition, robots have limited internal capacity. To support self-growing software for intelligent service robots, we are developing a cell-based distributed repository system that allows robots and developers transparently to share robot functionalities. To accomplish the creation of evolutionary repositories, we invented the concept of a cell, which is a logical group of distributed repositories based upon the functionalities of components. In addition, a cell can be used as a unit for the evolutionary growth of the components within the repositories. In this paper, we describe the requirements and architecture of the cell-based repository system for self-growing software. We also present a prototype implementation and experiment of the repository system. Through the cell-based repositories, we achieve improved performance of self-growing actions for robots and efficient sharing of components among robots and developers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.310-314
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• 2008

오늘날 온톨로지의 활용이 높아짐에 따라서 점점 더 방대한 양의 온톨로지가 구축이 되어가고 있다. 그러나 각 분야에 따라서 온톨로지의 분야와 분류가 다르고 내부에서 처리하는 데 걸리는 시간도 다르기 마련이다. 이러한 문제로 방대한 양의 온톨로지로 구성된 온톨로지 저장소는 검색 및 저장의 효율성이 떨어질 수 밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 상황의 온톨로지 검색과 저장의 효율성을 높이고자 온톨로지 저장소는 분산되어져야 함을 실제 사례를 들어 보이고 분산 온톨로지 저장소 사용의 필요성을 보여준다.