International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=267&year=2011&vol=3&issue=3/4 Inderscience Publishers Ltd en-uk International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 1755-0556 1755-0564 © 2011 Inderscience Publishers Ltd editor@inderscience.com https://www.inderscience.com/images/files/coverImgs/ijris_scoverijris.jpg http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=267&year=2011&vol=3&issue=3/4 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43538 In this paper, we present the work towards ORSIS, an ontology-based personal document management system which uses a reasoning engine to allow for knowledge discovery and inference. This work also presents the potentials of knowledge representation technologies, their performance and applicability for personal document management systems. As part of ORSIS, we also have developed simple but powerful query language which allows executing selection request with different joint criteria. Appropriate grammar has been developed and parser/lexer code was implemented. Users have all the necessary interface features to provide complex queries or to build search request by using appropriate dialogs. Semantic-based document management system
Houssam Haitof; Alexander Krivutsenko; Michael Gerndt
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 140 - 146
In this paper, we present the work towards ORSIS, an ontology-based personal document management system which uses a reasoning engine to allow for knowledge discovery and inference. This work also presents the potentials of knowledge representation technologies, their performance and applicability for personal document management systems. As part of ORSIS, we also have developed simple but powerful query language which allows executing selection request with different joint criteria. Appropriate grammar has been developed and parser/lexer code was implemented. Users have all the necessary interface features to provide complex queries or to build search request by using appropriate dialogs.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043538 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 140 - 146 Houssam Haitof; Alexander Krivutsenko; Michael Gerndt Faculty of Informatics (I10), Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching 85748, Germany. ' Faculty of Informatics (I10), Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching 85748, Germany. ' Faculty of Informatics (I10), Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching 85748, Germany semantic technologies document management systems ontologies knowledge discovery personal documents reasoning engines knowledge representation knowledge inference. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 140 146 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43539 Domain ontologies are intended to provide a commonly shared understanding among several user communities. Concepts and their relationships are used to explicitly model the real-world phenomena that are of interest to users of specific domain. In practice, a set of a specific-domain applications use different representations of the same real-world entity due to various viewpoints, context and specific interest. In this paper, we are interested in the problem of representing an ontology in heterogeneous organisation by taking into account different viewpoints and different terminologies of various users, groups or even communities in the organisation. Such ontology, called Multi-Viewpoints Ontology, allows heterogeneity and consensus in a heterogeneous organisation. So, our goal is to propose a Multi-Viewpoints Ontology Web Language, which is an extension of OWL-DL language, to allow the multi-viewpoints ontologies representation for the Semantic Web. MVP-OWL: a multi-viewpoints ontology language for the Semantic Web
Mounir Hemam; Zizette Boufaïda
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 147 - 155
Domain ontologies are intended to provide a commonly shared understanding among several user communities. Concepts and their relationships are used to explicitly model the real-world phenomena that are of interest to users of specific domain. In practice, a set of a specific-domain applications use different representations of the same real-world entity due to various viewpoints, context and specific interest. In this paper, we are interested in the problem of representing an ontology in heterogeneous organisation by taking into account different viewpoints and different terminologies of various users, groups or even communities in the organisation. Such ontology, called Multi-Viewpoints Ontology, allows heterogeneity and consensus in a heterogeneous organisation. So, our goal is to propose a Multi-Viewpoints Ontology Web Language, which is an extension of OWL-DL language, to allow the multi-viewpoints ontologies representation for the Semantic Web.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043539 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 147 - 155 Mounir Hemam; Zizette Boufaïda Department of Computer Science, Khenchela University, Khenchela 40000, Algeria; LIRE Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Mentouri University of Constantine, Constantine 25000, Algeria. ' LIRE Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Mentouri University of Constantine, Constantine 25000, Algeria ontologies semantic web description logics knowledge representation multi-viewpoint ontology language. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 147 155 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43540 Adaptation becomes more and more important in modern educational systems. Building an Adaptive Learning System requires granular and reusable content. The main goal of this paper is to examine the learning content granularity and its impact on the ability to adapt, aggregate and to arrange content suiting to the needs and preferences of the learner. We propose a new model of learning resources focusing on levels of fine-grained content. The core feature of our model is the use of learning objects approach, the educational standards and a synthesis of recent research made on the granularity concept. We will so define a new reformulation of granularity and we discuss it as a fundamental point to achieve adaptability and individualisation required in ALSs. Learning resources granularity: a lever for the issue of adaptability in adaptive hypermedia systems
Amal Battou; Chihab Eddine Cherkaoui; Driss Mammass
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 156 - 163
Adaptation becomes more and more important in modern educational systems. Building an Adaptive Learning System requires granular and reusable content. The main goal of this paper is to examine the learning content granularity and its impact on the ability to adapt, aggregate and to arrange content suiting to the needs and preferences of the learner. We propose a new model of learning resources focusing on levels of fine-grained content. The core feature of our model is the use of learning objects approach, the educational standards and a synthesis of recent research made on the granularity concept. We will so define a new reformulation of granularity and we discuss it as a fundamental point to achieve adaptability and individualisation required in ALSs.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043540 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 156 - 163 Amal Battou; Chihab Eddine Cherkaoui; Driss Mammass Laboratoire IRF-SIC, Université IBN ZOHR, Faculté des sciences & Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion, B.P:15136 cité salam, Agadir, Morocco. ' Laboratoire IRF-SIC, Université IBN ZOHR, Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion Agadir, B.P. 37/S, Agadir, Morocco. ' Laboratoire IRF-SIC, Université IBN ZOHR, Faculté des sciences, B.P.28/S, Agadir, Morocco adaptation modern educational systems ALS adaptive learning systems granular reusable learning content granularity fine-grained content learning objects educational standards adaptability individualisation learning resources adaptive hypermedia. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 156 163 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43541 The semantic geospatial web illustrates the use of geospatial semantics. The geospatial data are organised through catalogues containing metadata records, which can be queried in order to give access to related resources. Metadata, which refer to data describing data, include the quality of them where many values are fuzzy and/or uncertain. Different standards exist but the imperfection of knowledge is not well taken into account. We are interested in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and Resource Description Framework language of the semantic web. We have extended its fuzzy version. Geographic metadata: data quality, uncertainty and imprecision
Karima Akli-Astouati; Ratiba Guebaili; Aicha Mokhtari
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 164 - 172
The semantic geospatial web illustrates the use of geospatial semantics. The geospatial data are organised through catalogues containing metadata records, which can be queried in order to give access to related resources. Metadata, which refer to data describing data, include the quality of them where many values are fuzzy and/or uncertain. Different standards exist but the imperfection of knowledge is not well taken into account. We are interested in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and Resource Description Framework language of the semantic web. We have extended its fuzzy version.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043541 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 164 - 172 Karima Akli-Astouati; Ratiba Guebaili; Aicha Mokhtari Department of Computer Science, USTHB University, Algiers, Algeria. ' Department of Computer Science, USTHB University, Algiers, Algeria. ' Department of Computer Science, USTHB University, Algiers, Algeria geographic metadata ontology RDF resource description framework RDFS conceptual graphs fuzzy SIG data quality data uncertainty data imprecision spatial data geospatial semantics semantic web Dublin Core. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 164 172 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43542 Advanced Sustainable Energy Technologies for Cooling and Heating Applications (ASTECH) project is about capitalisation and sharing knowledge across Europe in the domain of renewable energies. Experts, scientists and manufacturers are involved in this project to build a unique and shareable knowledge base about methods, technologies and providers in Europe. The participation of Ontologos corp. in this project is for the construction and the exploitation of this European document base. This project requires a particular focus on the multilingualism issue and that is why we will describe a new conceptual approach based on craft ontology and user-oriented terminologies. We present the OUSIA© method as a new extralinguistic solution for knowledge-sharing issues. ASTECH project: craft ontology and terminologies to share knowledge in renewable energies area across Europe
Sylvain Pralon; Cécile Million-Rousseau
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 173 - 180
Advanced Sustainable Energy Technologies for Cooling and Heating Applications (ASTECH) project is about capitalisation and sharing knowledge across Europe in the domain of renewable energies. Experts, scientists and manufacturers are involved in this project to build a unique and shareable knowledge base about methods, technologies and providers in Europe. The participation of Ontologos corp. in this project is for the construction and the exploitation of this European document base. This project requires a particular focus on the multilingualism issue and that is why we will describe a new conceptual approach based on craft ontology and user-oriented terminologies. We present the OUSIA© method as a new extralinguistic solution for knowledge-sharing issues.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043542 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 173 - 180 Sylvain Pralon; Cécile Million-Rousseau Ontologos corp., PAE du Levray, 6 Route de Nanfray, 74960 Cran-Gevrier, France. ' Ontologos corp., PAE du Levray, 6 Route de Nanfray, 74960 Cran-Gevrier, France ontology terminology communities of practice information retrieval multilingual semantic annotation knowledge sharing renewable energy energy technology cooling heating sustainable energy. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 173 180 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43543 Most agent-oriented methodologies do not provide a development approach that ensures the transition from the design phase to the implementation phase. To certify the system consistency during the development process, and to avoid developers putting an extra effort to implement the system on a specific platform, we propose a new approach based on agent meta-model, business process (BP) meta-model, MAS-ML meta-model, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and Multi-Agent System (MAS). This approach defines different meta-models and models that instantiate the defined meta-models. This allows a mapping from the requirement model to the platform-specific model. To validate our proposal, we propose a case study in visual agent environment. Towards an MDA-based multi-agent system
Sana Nouzri; Aziz El Fazziki
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 181 - 193
Most agent-oriented methodologies do not provide a development approach that ensures the transition from the design phase to the implementation phase. To certify the system consistency during the development process, and to avoid developers putting an extra effort to implement the system on a specific platform, we propose a new approach based on agent meta-model, business process (BP) meta-model, MAS-ML meta-model, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and Multi-Agent System (MAS). This approach defines different meta-models and models that instantiate the defined meta-models. This allows a mapping from the requirement model to the platform-specific model. To validate our proposal, we propose a case study in visual agent environment.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043543 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 181 - 193 Sana Nouzri; Aziz El Fazziki Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, BP 2390, Marrakech, Morocco. ' Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, BP 2390, Marrakech, Morocco MDA model-driven architecture MAS multi-agent systems metamodelling MAS-ML visual agents agent-based systems business process modelling. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 181 193 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43544 Several web service composition languages have appeared in the last years and converged into the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) standard. These languages are however quite complex and low level so that they cannot be used by non-programmers such as business users. To address these problems, various works proposed model-based approaches whereas other works focused on the transformation of business process models to executable languages such as WS-BPEL. However, there is a mismatch between these two levels and consequently, most existing mappings are limited and the respective tools can generate only primitive skeletons that require human intervention to complete a large part of the generated code. In this paper, we address the complexity of problems of executable service composition languages through a model-driven approach, in which we bridge the gap between the business level and the execution level by introducing an intermediate level for modelling service-based business processes using BPMN4SOA, which is our service-oriented extension of business process modelling notation for modelling service-based business processes. A model-driven approach to developing web service compositions based on BPMN4SOA
Anis Charfi; Sameh Hbaieb Turki; Ayman Chaâbane; Heiko Witteborg; Rafik Bouaziz
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 194 - 204
Several web service composition languages have appeared in the last years and converged into the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) standard. These languages are however quite complex and low level so that they cannot be used by non-programmers such as business users. To address these problems, various works proposed model-based approaches whereas other works focused on the transformation of business process models to executable languages such as WS-BPEL. However, there is a mismatch between these two levels and consequently, most existing mappings are limited and the respective tools can generate only primitive skeletons that require human intervention to complete a large part of the generated code. In this paper, we address the complexity of problems of executable service composition languages through a model-driven approach, in which we bridge the gap between the business level and the execution level by introducing an intermediate level for modelling service-based business processes using BPMN4SOA, which is our service-oriented extension of business process modelling notation for modelling service-based business processes.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043544 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 194 - 204 Anis Charfi; Sameh Hbaieb Turki; Ayman Chaâbane; Heiko Witteborg; Rafik Bouaziz SAP Research Center Darmstadt, SAP AG, Bleichstr. 8, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany. ' MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia. ' MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia. ' SAP Research Center Darmstadt, SAP AG, Bleichstr. 8, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany. ' MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia web service composition model-driven software development service-oriented architecture SOA MDA model-driven architecture BPMN business process modelling notation WS-BPEL web services business process execution language. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 194 204 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43545 Collaborative activities such as coordination, decision-making and negotiation critically depend on historical knowledge of an organisation. Previous research in collaborative activities has proposed the use of collective memory to accumulate, organise, preserve, link and share diverse knowledge coming from past experiences, and thus support such collaborative activities. In this paper we describe a hybrid reasoning-based system for collaborative decision-making which combines a case-based reasoning method and a model-based reasoning method. The main goals are to reduce the time required to come to a decision, particularly, in a contingency situation, to compensate for lack of experience of young operators, and to distribute available experience to different sites. Hybrid reasoning-based system for collaborative decision-making
Abdelkader Adla
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 205 - 211
Collaborative activities such as coordination, decision-making and negotiation critically depend on historical knowledge of an organisation. Previous research in collaborative activities has proposed the use of collective memory to accumulate, organise, preserve, link and share diverse knowledge coming from past experiences, and thus support such collaborative activities. In this paper we describe a hybrid reasoning-based system for collaborative decision-making which combines a case-based reasoning method and a model-based reasoning method. The main goals are to reduce the time required to come to a decision, particularly, in a contingency situation, to compensate for lack of experience of young operators, and to distribute available experience to different sites.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043545 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 205 - 211 Abdelkader Adla LISI, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France; Department of Computer Science, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria collaborative decision making case-based reasoning CBR group decision support systems GDSS shared collective memory hybrid reasoning intelligent systems. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 205 211 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43546 In this paper, an Arabic character recognition system based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is presented. In this system, each drawn Arabic character is represented by binary values that are used as input to a simple feature extraction system, whose output is fed to a Kohonen neural network that consists of two layers (first layer 99 neurons, second layer 28 neurons). Simulation results are provided and show that the proposed system always produces a lower Mean Squared Error (MSE) and higher success rates than the most of the other classifier method solutions, especially when the contaminating noise level is low. Recognition of the Arabic handwritten letters by the neural networks
Mohamed Senouci
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 212 - 216
In this paper, an Arabic character recognition system based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is presented. In this system, each drawn Arabic character is represented by binary values that are used as input to a simple feature extraction system, whose output is fed to a Kohonen neural network that consists of two layers (first layer 99 neurons, second layer 28 neurons). Simulation results are provided and show that the proposed system always produces a lower Mean Squared Error (MSE) and higher success rates than the most of the other classifier method solutions, especially when the contaminating noise level is low.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043546 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 212 - 216 Mohamed Senouci Department of Computer Science, University of Oran, Algeria artificial neural networks ANNs pattern recognition Arabic handwritten letters Kohonen segmentation classification Arabic character recognition handwriting recognition. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 212 216 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=43547 The promise of web service technology is to offer an efficient way for B2B communications. Web service description might cover three aspects: functional, non-functional and behavioural aspects. Policies are used to define constraints on functional and behavioural web service offer and also to express the web services’ non-functional properties, which are related to various specific domains such as the security and the quality of service. These policies are crucial in different service processes, especially in the negotiation phase of service discovery and selection. In the present work, we address how to specify user context policy domain in the design level, how to define web services policies based on the defined domain and how to attach these policies to the service capabilities. We propose UML-based profiles and transformation rules to model policy assertions’ domains, specify web services policies and generate the executable files. The paper aims to minimise the development cost and help developers overcome the complexity of the WS-Policy language using the proposed model-driven architecture (MDA) approach. UML-based profiles for policy-aware web services
Hajar Omrana; Fatima-Zahra Belouadha; Ounsa Roudiès
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 217 - 225
The promise of web service technology is to offer an efficient way for B2B communications. Web service description might cover three aspects: functional, non-functional and behavioural aspects. Policies are used to define constraints on functional and behavioural web service offer and also to express the web services’ non-functional properties, which are related to various specific domains such as the security and the quality of service. These policies are crucial in different service processes, especially in the negotiation phase of service discovery and selection. In the present work, we address how to specify user context policy domain in the design level, how to define web services policies based on the defined domain and how to attach these policies to the service capabilities. We propose UML-based profiles and transformation rules to model policy assertions’ domains, specify web services policies and generate the executable files. The paper aims to minimise the development cost and help developers overcome the complexity of the WS-Policy language using the proposed model-driven architecture (MDA) approach.

]]> 10.1504/IJRIS.2011.043547 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (2011) pp. 217 - 225 Hajar Omrana; Fatima-Zahra Belouadha; Ounsa Roudiès Department of Computer Science, Ecole Mohammadia des ingénieurs (EMI), Mohammad V University Agdal, BP. 765, Av. Ibn Sina Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. ' Department of Computer Science, Ecole Mohammadia des ingénieurs (EMI), Mohammad V University Agdal, BP. 765, Av. Ibn Sina Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. ' Department of Computer Science, Ecole Mohammadia des ingénieurs (EMI), Mohammad V University Agdal, BP. 765, Av. Ibn Sina Agdal, Rabat, Morocco web services UML profiles WS-Policy MDA user context policy domain web service policies service capabilities model-driven architecture. 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00 3 3/4 217 225 2011-11-04T23:20:50-05:00