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Ontology as a Service (OaaS): extracting and replacing sub-ontologies on the cloud

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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.

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    Andrew Flahive & Wenny Rahayu

  2. Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    David Taniar

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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

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