Paper Info
Title
Ontology as a Service (OaaS): a case for sub-ontology merging on the cloud
Abstract
Cloud computing is a revolution in the information technology industry. It allows computing services provided as utilities. The traditional cloud services include Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Hardware/Infrastructure as a Service, and Database as a Service. In this paper, we introduce the notion of Ontology as a Service (OaaS), whereby the ontology tailoring process is a service in the cloud. This is particularly relevant as we are moving toward Cloud 2.0--multi-cloud providers to provide an interoperable service to customers. To illustrate OaaS, in this paper we propose sub-ontology extraction and merging, whereby multiple sub-ontologies are extracted from various source ontologies, and then these extracted sub-ontologies are merged to form a complete ontology to be used by the user. We use the Minimum extraction method to facilitate this. A walkthrough case study using the UMLS meta-thesaurus ontology is elaborated, and its performance in the cloud is also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11227-011-0711-4
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud computing,Ontology
Ontology (information science),Ontology merging,Ontology-based data integration,World Wide Web,Process ontology,Computer science,Suggested Upper Merged Ontology,Data as a service,Cloud testing,Database,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
65
1
0920-8542
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.57
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Flahive115913.87
David Taniar21890189.50
J. Wenny Rahayu31275106.72