Publication
Semantic Management of Heterogeneous Documents
Dieter Hutter
In: Proceedings of the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2009), November 9 - October 13, Guanajuato, Mexico, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Vol. 5845, Springer, 2009.
Abstract
Software Engineering or other design processes produce a
variety of different documents written in different formats
and formalizations, and interwoven by various relations and
dependencies. Working on such document collections is not
a simple progression of developing one document after the
other, but it's the art of orchestrating a synchronous
development of the entire document collection. Design
decisions made in one document influence the appearance
of others and modifications made to one document have to
be propagated along the various interrelations throughout the
document collection. In contrast, tool support typically
focuses on individual document types ignoring dependencies
between different document types, which likely results in
inconsistencies between individual documents of the collection.
In this paper we will advocate a semantic management
of heterogeneous documents that orchestrates the evolution of
the individual documents with the help of specialized tools.
Such a management monitors the design process, takes care of the
various dependencies between documents, analyses the consequences
of changes made in one document to others, and engineers the
synchronization steps necessary to obtain a consistent document
collection. The semantic basis of such an approach are ontologies
formalizing the structuring mechanisms and interrelations of
individual document types.