Towards Sharable Application Ontologies for the Automatic Generation of UIs for Dialog based Linked Data Applications

Michael Hitz, Thomas Kessel, Dennis Pfisterer

2017

Abstract

The emerging Internet of Everything is a driving force for businesses to expose their processes as services to third parties to be integrated into their applications (e.g. the booking of a trip or requesting the quote for a complex product). To standardize the processes and related data, increasingly semantic web technologies are applied - leading to a shared conceptualization of the business domains and thus creating a linked data service ecosystem for domain-specific services. Although the communication on machine-level is standardized by using semantic web technologies, the integration of the user into the overall process is still a manual task: User Interfaces (UI) for collecting the input data for a process are built manually for multiple platforms and user groups. The claim of this paper is, that given a linked data service ecosystem, UIs can be modelled and automatically generated for integration into linked data applications. The paper presents an ontology-based, model-driven approach for modelling UI variants for automatically generating dialog-based applications, providing output understood by associated linked data services.

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Hitz M., Kessel T. and Pfisterer D. (2017). Towards Sharable Application Ontologies for the Automatic Generation of UIs for Dialog based Linked Data Applications . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-210-3, pages 65-77. DOI: 10.5220/0006137600650077


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@conference{modelsward17,
author={Michael Hitz and Thomas Kessel and Dennis Pfisterer},
title={Towards Sharable Application Ontologies for the Automatic Generation of UIs for Dialog based Linked Data Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2017},
pages={65-77},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006137600650077},
isbn={978-989-758-210-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Towards Sharable Application Ontologies for the Automatic Generation of UIs for Dialog based Linked Data Applications
SN - 978-989-758-210-3
AU - Hitz M.
AU - Kessel T.
AU - Pfisterer D.
PY - 2017
SP - 65
EP - 77
DO - 10.5220/0006137600650077