• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2009

As size of ontology has been increased more and more, the descriptions in the ontologies become more complicated, Therefore finding and modifying unsatisfiable concepts is hard work in ontology construction process, Minerva is an ontology reasoner which detects unsatisfiable concepts automatically and infers subsumption relation between concepts in ontology, Most description logic based ontology reasoners (including Minerva) work using tableaux algorithm, Because tableaux algorithm is very costly, ontology reasoners need various optimization methods, In this paper, we propose optimizing methods to reduce execution time of tableaux algorithm based ontology reasoner. Proposed methods were applied to Minerva which was developed as preceding study result. In consequence the new version Minerva shows high performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.411-419
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• 2009

In order to derive hidden Information (concept subsumption, concept satisfiability and realization) of OWL ontologies, a number of OWL reasoners have been introduced. Most of the reasoners were implemented to be based on tableau algorithm. However this approach has certain limitation. This paper presents architecture for Medusa. The Medusa is an extended DL-reasoner for SWRL(Semantic Web Rule Language) reasoning under well-founded semantics with ontologies specified in Description Logic. Description logic based ontology reasoners theoretically explore knowledge representation and its reasoning in concept languages. However these logics are not equipped with rule-based reasoning mechanisms for assertional knowledge base; specifically, rule and facts in logic programming, or interaction of rules and facts with terminology. In order to deal with the enriched reasoning, The Medusa provides combining DL-knowledge base and rule based reasoner. The described prototype uses $Prot{\acute{e}}g{\acute{e}}$ API[1] for controlling communication with the ontology reasoner.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.663-668
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• 2008

These days, computing systems need to be intelligent for satisfying general users' ambiguous requests. In order to make a system intelligent, several methods of managing knowledge have been proposed. Especially, in ubiquitous computing environment, where various computing objects are working together for achieving the given goal, ontology can be the best solutionfor knowledge management. In this paper, we proposed a novel reasoner processing ontology-based knowledge which is expressed in EOL. As this EOL reasoner uses less computing resource, it can be easily adapted to various computing objects in ubiquitous computing environment providing easy usability of knowledge.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.762-773
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• 2014

As the web of data is increasingly producing large RDFS datasets, it becomes essential in building scalable reasoning engines over large triples. There have been many researches used expensive distributed framework, such as Hadoop, to reason over large RDFS triples. However, in many cases we are required to handle millions of triples. In such cases, it is not necessary to deploy expensive distributed systems because logic program based reasoners in a single machine can produce similar reasoning performances with that of distributed reasoner using Hadoop. In this paper, we propose a scalable RDFS reasoner using logical programming methods in a single machine and compare our empirical results with that of distributed systems. We show that our logic programming based reasoner using a single machine performs as similar as expensive distributed reasoner does up to 200 million RDFS triples. In addition, we designed a meta data structure by decomposing the ontology triples into separate sectors. Instead of loading all the triples into a single model, we selected an appropriate subset of the triples for each ontology reasoning rule. Unification makes it easy to handle conjunctive queries for RDFS schema reasoning, therefore, we have designed and implemented RDFS axioms using logic programming unifications and efficient conjunctive query handling mechanisms. The throughputs of our approach reached to 166K Triples/sec over LUBM1500 with 200 million triples. It is comparable to that of WebPIE, distributed reasoner using Hadoop and Map Reduce, which performs 185K Triples/sec. We show that it is unnecessary to use the distributed system up to 200 million triples and the performance of logic programming based reasoner in a single machine becomes comparable with that of expensive distributed reasoner which employs Hadoop framework.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.438-453
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• 2014

This paper proposes a system to translate an RDB into an OWL ontology which enables the users to navigate the ontology in GUI. In order to accomplish the goals mentioned previously, the system overcame two difficulties. First, our system defines a new mapping algorithm to map between DB elements and ontology ones. Comparing with existing solutions, our algorithm is able to generate ontologies from more DB structures. Second, our system provides the same data generated by a reasoner to the users. Note that this operation does not load ABox ontology on a reasoner. In addition, Tableau-based reasoners have the tractability problem on a large ABox (e.g., large ABoxes translated from DBs practically cannot be served). To solve this, our system internally runs SQL queries to retrieve the same data as the one from a reasoner every time ABox elements are queried.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.239-252
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• 2008

Since EA includes huge information of a company, it takes long time and high cost for company's employees to search for what they need. We try to make the foundation to solve this problem by using ontology technology based on semantic web. In this paper, we try to verify efficiency of EA ontology by developing ontology for Business Enterprise Architecture(BEA). The purpose of this paper is to develop BEA ontology to provide new information by reasoner and to discover new relations between matadata by using extracted information and data. The EA ontology we developed will provide the new way of access and use for companies. The experience of ontology development will help EA ontology development in various domains. In the future, the development of other EAs which has more information resources will help to solve problems for interoperability between different EAs.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.307-319
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• 2015

Current ontology studies use the Hadoop distributed storage framework to perform map-reduce algorithm-based reasoning for scalable ontologies. In this paper, however, we propose a novel approach for scalable Web Ontology Language (OWL) Horst Lite ontology reasoning, based on distributed cluster memories. Rule-based reasoning, which is frequently used for scalable ontologies, iteratively executes triple-format ontology rules, until the inferred data no longer exists. Therefore, when the scalable ontology reasoning is performed on computer hard drives, the ontology reasoner suffers from performance limitations. In order to overcome this drawback, we propose an approach that loads the ontologies into distributed cluster memories, using Spark (a memory-based distributed computing framework), which executes the ontology reasoning. In order to implement an appropriate OWL Horst Lite ontology reasoning system on Spark, our method divides the scalable ontologies into blocks, loads each block into the cluster nodes, and subsequently handles the data in the distributed memories. We used the Lehigh University Benchmark, which is used to evaluate ontology inference and search speed, to experimentally evaluate the methods suggested in this paper, which we applied to LUBM8000 (1.1 billion triples, 155 gigabytes). When compared with WebPIE, a representative mapreduce algorithm-based scalable ontology reasoner, the proposed approach showed a throughput improvement of 320% (62k/s) over WebPIE (19k/s).

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.139-147
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• 2009

This paper proposed the context awareness reasoning system to provide the personalized services dynamically in a ubiquitous mobile environments. The proposed system is designed to provide the personalized services to mobile users and consists of the context aggregator and the knowledge manager. The context aggregator can collect information from networks through Open API Gateway as well as sensors in a various ubiquitous environment. And it can also extract the place types through the geocoding and the social address domain ontology. The knowledge manager is the core component to provide the personalized services, and consists of activity reasoner, user pattern learner and service recommender to provide the services predict by extracting the optimized service from user situations. Activity reasoner uses the ontology reasoning and user pattern learner learns with previous service usage history and contexts. And to design service recommender easy to flexibly apply in dynamic environments, service recommender recommends service in the only use of current accessible contexts. Finally, we evaluate the learner and recommender of proposed system by simulation.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.835-840
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• 2007

현재 이슈가 되고 있는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 서비스를 제공함에 있어 사용자의 만족도를 높여주기 위해 서비스의 지능화가 필요하다. 이러한 지능적인 서비스를 제공하기 위해 서비스에 필요한 지식을 논리적으로 표현하고, 체계적으로 추론할 수 있는 방법이 요구된다. 이를 위해 표현 범위가 넓고 유연한 일차 술어 논리(FOL)는 여러 분야에서 사용되었으며, 추론 시스템에 이용되고 있다. 그러나 풍부한 표현 범위는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 오브젝트 관리에 있어 많은 계산비용이 소요된다. 서비스의 빠른 제공을 목표로 하고 있는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 이러한 계산비용은 서비스 제공 시간을 늦추는 요인이 된다. 이러한 문제를 극복하고 지식의 의미를 부여하는 방법으로 Description Logic과 온톨로지가 연구되고 있다. 특히 OWL(Web Ontology Language)은 풍부한 표현력을 제공하고 있으며, W3C에 의해 온톨로지 기술의 표준으로 제안되었다. 그러나 풍부한 표현 범위는 실제 컴퓨팅 환경에서 모두 사용되지 않고, 기술 및 추론의 복잡함으로 overhead가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 극복하고자 실제 유비쿼터스 환경에서 요구되는 표현 범위를 만족하는 SUNHI의 표현력을 갖는 EOL을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.401-410
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• 2009

In order to derive hidden information (concept subsumption, concept satisfiability and realization) of OWL ontology, a number of OWL reasoners have been introduced. The most of these ontology reasoners were implemented using the tableau algorithm. However most reasoners simply report this information without providing a justification for any arbitrary entailment and unsatisfiable concept derived from OWL ontologies. The purpose of this paper is to investigate an optimized method for non-deterministic rule of the tableau algorithm and finding axioms to cause inconsistency in ontology. In this paper, therefore, we propose an optimized method for non-deterministic rule and finding axiom to cause inconsistency using NATMS. In the first place, we introduce Dependency Directed Backtracking to deal non-deterministic rule, a tableau-based decision procedure to find unsatisfiable axiom Furthermore we propose an improved method adapting NATMS.