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A Structured Evaluation to Assess the Reusability of Models of User Profiles

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2010, EMMSAD 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 50))

Abstract

In the creation of an adaptive mobile personalisation system it is useful to investigate whether existing models are applicable. Such models are usually structured as ontologies. We view existing ontologies from a reuse perspective, and have chosen to specialise the SEQUAL quality framework for evaluation of existing models. SEQUAL has previously been used for the evaluation of modelling languages and approaches, including the evaluation of ontologies. Using the semiotic quality categories in SEQUAL, an evaluation has been made of potential ontologies. The result of the evaluation is that none of the evaluated ontologies satisfies requirements as models that can be reused or built on, and the profile ontology has been created from scratch.

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  1. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Lillian Hella & John Krogstie

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    Ilia Bider

  2. LogicBlox, 30309, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Terry Halpin

  3. NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7030, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. University of Paris, 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, 75005, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  5. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  6. Aalen University, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  7. University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

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Hella, L., Krogstie, J. (2010). A Structured Evaluation to Assess the Reusability of Models of User Profiles. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2010 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_19

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