Ontology-driven development of intelligent educational systems

Gordon Deline, Fuhua Lin, Dunwei Wen, Dragan Gašević, Kinshuk

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    Abstract

    Despite the opportunities to improve software development though the use of ontologies, there have been few reports giving guidelines for developing such systems based on real case studies. This paper explores what approach to Ontology-driven Software Development (ODD) would be suited for the development of intelligent educational systems such as Athabasca University's eAdvisor - an intelligent academic advising system. With the goal of exploiting synergies with proven software engineering practices to meet the needs of both those who develop the system and those who govern projects, baseline processes for ODD of eAdvisor have been developed. Initial analysis of the feasibility of these baseline processes from performance and complexity viewpoints took place using qualitative analysis of focused interviews. ODD is especially appropriate for the development of intelligent systems with an ontology-based architecture and can leverage familiar and proven software engineering tools and techniques.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Conference Proceedings, PACRIM
    Pages34-37
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    Event2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, PACRIM - Victoria, BC, Canada
    Duration: 22 Aug. 200724 Aug. 2007

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Pacific RIM Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, PACRIM
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityVictoria, BC
    Period22/08/0724/08/07

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