TY - JOUR
T1 - Ontologies and the brain
T2 - Using spreading activation through ontologies to support personal interaction
AU - Katifori, Akrivi
AU - Vassilakis, Costas
AU - Dix, Alan
PY - 2009/2/20
Y1 - 2009/2/20
N2 - Ontologies, as knowledge engineering tools, allow information to be modelled in ways resembling to those used by the human brain, and may be very useful in the context of personal information management (PIM) and task information management (TIM). This work proposes the use of ontologies as a long-term knowledge store for PIM-related information, and the use of spreading activation over ontologies in order to provide context inference to tools that support TIM. Details on the ontology creation and content are provided, along with a full description of the spreading activation algorithm and its preliminary evaluation.
AB - Ontologies, as knowledge engineering tools, allow information to be modelled in ways resembling to those used by the human brain, and may be very useful in the context of personal information management (PIM) and task information management (TIM). This work proposes the use of ontologies as a long-term knowledge store for PIM-related information, and the use of spreading activation over ontologies in order to provide context inference to tools that support TIM. Details on the ontology creation and content are provided, along with a full description of the spreading activation algorithm and its preliminary evaluation.
KW - Ontology
KW - Personal interaction
KW - Personal ontology
KW - Spreading activation
KW - User tasks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77953609511&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2009.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cogsys.2009.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953609511
SN - 1389-0417
VL - 11
SP - 25
EP - 41
JO - Cognitive Systems Research
JF - Cognitive Systems Research
IS - 1
ER -