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Ontology-Based Identification of Research Gaps and Immature Research Areas

Ontology-Based Identification of Research Gaps and Immature Research Areas

  • Kristian Beckers21,
  • Stefan Eicker21,
  • Stephan Faßbender21,
  • Maritta Heisel21,
  • Holger Schmidt22 &
  • …
  • Widura Schwittek21 
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Abstract

Researchers often have to understand new knowledge areas, and identify research gaps and immature areas in them. They have to understand and link numerous publications to achieve this goal. This is difficult, because natural language has to be analyzed in the publications, and implicit relations between them have to be discovered. We propose to utilize the structuring possibilities of ontologies to make the relations between publications, knowledge objects (e.g., methods, tools, notations), and knowledge areas explicit. Furthermore, we use Kitchenham’s work on structured literature reviews and apply it to the ontology. We formalize relations between objects in the ontology using Codd’s relational algebra to support different kinds of literature research. These formal expressions are implemented as ontology queries. Thus, we implement an immature research area analysis and research gap identification mechanism. The ontology and its relations are implemented based on the Semantic MediaWiki+ platform.

Keywords

  • ontologies
  • research gaps
  • knowledge management
  • facetted search

This research was partially supported by the EU project Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems (NESSoS, ICT-2009.1.4 Trustworthy ICT, Grant No. 256980).

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  1. paluno - The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Kristian Beckers, Stefan Eicker, Stephan Faßbender, Maritta Heisel & Widura Schwittek

  2. ITESYS, Institut für technische Systeme GmbH, Germany

    Holger Schmidt

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  1. Department of IT, Engineering and Environment, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5001, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Gerald Quirchmayr

  2. Department of Information Technologies, University of Economics, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67, Prague 3, Czech Republic

    Josef Basl

  3. School of Information Science, Korean Bible University, 16 Danghyun 2-gil, Nowon-gu, 139-791, Seoul, Korea

    Ilsun You

  4. Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, 2076 Constant Hall, 23529, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Lida Xu

  5. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology and SBA Research, Favoritenstrsse 9-11, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Edgar Weippl

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Beckers, K., Eicker, S., Faßbender, S., Heisel, M., Schmidt, H., Schwittek, W. (2012). Ontology-Based Identification of Research Gaps and Immature Research Areas. In: Quirchmayr, G., Basl, J., You, I., Xu, L., Weippl, E. (eds) Multidisciplinary Research and Practice for Information Systems. CD-ARES 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32498-7_1

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