Title: A service-oriented framework for controlling invasive species in agriculture

Authors: Brahim Medjahed, Shamil Hadi, William I. Grosky

Addresses: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA. ' Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA. ' Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA

Abstract: The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has killed or infested millions of ash trees in the USA. It has the potential to decimate ash trees as a component of North American forests, which will have dramatic ecological and economic effects. Government agencies have joined forces to implement a long-term programme to contain and eventually eradicate the borer. One key requirement for the success of this programme is the underlying information-sharing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based service-oriented framework, called Sentinel, to automate the dissemination of EAB-related information. We also present experiment results to assess the performance of our framework.

Keywords: invasive species; agriculture; EAB; emerald ash borer; SOA; service-oriented architecture; ontology; notification; ash trees; information sharing; information dissemination.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026252

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2009 Vol.4 No.1/2, pp.34 - 41

Published online: 30 May 2009 *

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