Abstract
Cloud computing is founded by the concept of service computing, where everything is a service—computing services are now utilities. There are various known services in cloud computing. At the moment, there are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Hardware/Infrastructure as a Service (HaaS/IaaS), and Database as a Service (DaaS). In this paper, we propose Ontology as a Service (OaaS), which is an ontology tailoring process service in the cloud. In particular, we focus on sub-ontology extraction and replacement on the cloud. We use the Maximum Extraction method to facilitate this. UMLS meta-thesaurus ontology is used as a walk-through case study to illustrate our proposed method.
References
Abdulrazak, B., Chikhaoui, B., Gouin-Vallerand, C., Fraikin, B.: A standard ontology for smart spaces. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 6(3), 244–268 (2010)
Bhatt, M., Flahive, A., Wouters, C., Rahayu, J.W., Taniar, D., Dillon, T.S.: A distributed approach to sub-ontology extraction. In: AINA (1), pp. 636–641. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2004)
Bhatt, M., Wouters, C., Flahive, A., Rahayu, J.W., Taniar, D.: Semantic completeness in sub-ontology extraction using distributed methods. In: Laganà, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds.) ICCSA (3). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3045, pp. 508–517. Springer, Berlin (2004)
Bhatt, M., Flahive, A., Wouters, C., Rahayu, W., Taniar, D.: Move: a distributed framework for materialized ontology view extraction. Algorithmica 45(3), 457–481 (2006)
Chua, W.W.K., Goh, A.E.S.: Techniques for discovering correspondences between ontologies. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 6(3), 213–243 (2010)
Chuang, C.-C., Kao, S.-J.: Adjustable flooding-based discovery with multiple qoss for cloud services acquisition. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 7(2), 208–224 (2011)
Flahive, A., Rahayu, J.W., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O.: A distributed ontology framework for the grid. In: Liew, K.-M., Shen, H., See, S., Cai, W., Fan, P., Horiguchi, S. (eds.) PDCAT. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3320, pp. 68–71. Springer, Berlin (2004)
Flahive, A., Rahayu, J.W., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O.: A distributed ontology framework in the semantic grid environment. In: AINA, pp. 193–196. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2005)
Flahive, A., Rahayu, W., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O.: A service oriented architecture for extracting and extending sub-ontologies in the semantic grid. In: The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2007)
Flahive, A., Taniar, D., Rahayu, W., Apduhan, B.O.: Ontology tailoring in the semantic grid. Comput. Stand. Interfaces 31(5), 870–885 (2009)
Flahive, A., Taniar, D., Rahayu, W., Apduhan, B.O.: Ontology expansion: appending with extracted sub-ontology. Log. J. IGPL 19(5), 618–647 (2011)
Flahive, A., Taniar, D., Rahayu, W.: Ontology as a service (OaaS): a case for sub-ontology merging on the cloud. J. Supercomput. (2012). doi:10.1007/s11227-011-0711-4
Flahive, A., Taniar, D., Rahayu, W., Apduhan, B.O.: A methodology for ontology update in the semantic grid environment. Concurr. Comput. (2012). doi:10.1002/cpe.2841
Flahive, A., Taniar, D., Rahayu, W., Nguyen, H.-Q.: Ontology as a Service (OaaS): extending sub-ontologies on the cloud. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. (2021, accepted for publication)
Kim, W.: Cloud computing adoption. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 7(3), 225–245 (2011)
Kim, J., Kim, P., Chung, H.: Ontology construction using online ontologies based on selection, mapping and merging. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 7(2), 170–189 (2011)
Koehler, M., Ruckenbauer, M., Janciak, I., Benkner, S., Lischka, H., Gansterer, W.N.: A grid services cloud for molecular modelling workflows. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 6(2), 176–195 (2010)
Ng, W.S., Kirchberg, M., Bressan, S., Tan, K.-L.: Towards a privacy-aware stream data management system for cloud applications. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 7(3), 246–267 (2011)
O’Leary, D.E.: Different firms, different ontologies, and no one best ontology. IEEE Intell. Syst. 15(5), 72–78 (2000)
Petruch, K., Stantchev, V., Tamm, G.: A survey on it-governance aspects of cloud computing. Int. J. Web Grid Serv. 7(3), 268–303 (2011)
Taniar, D., Rahayu, W. (eds.): Web Semantics and Ontology. Idea Group, Hershey (2006)
UMLS: UMLS Knowledge Sources. Unified Medical Language System, 13th edn. US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Washington (2002)
Wordnet: Wordnet, a lexical database for the english language. http://wordnet.princeton.edu (2010)
Wouters, C.: A formalization and application of ontology extraction. PhD thesis, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (2005)
Wouters, C., Dillon, T., Rahayu, W., Chang, E.: A practical walkthrough of the ontology derivation rules. In: DEXA2002, pp. 259–268 (2002)
Wouters, C., Dillon, T., Rahayu, W., Chang, E., Meersman, R.: Ontologies on the move. In: Database Systems for Advanced Application (DASFAA 2004). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 812–823. Springer, Berlin (2004)
Wouters, C., Dillon, T., Rahayu, W., Chang, E., Meersman, R.: A practical approach to the derivation of materialized ontology views. In: Taniar, D., Rahayu, W. (eds.) Web Information Systems, pp. 191–226. Idea Group, Hershey (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Flahive, A., Taniar, D. & Rahayu, W. Ontology as a Service (OaaS): extracting and replacing sub-ontologies on the cloud. Cluster Comput 16, 947–960 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-012-0231-x
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-012-0231-x