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User-Friendly Ontology Structure Maintenance Mechanism Targeting Sri Lankan Agriculture Domain

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As a result of recent enhancements in global knowledge sharing capabilities, knowledge representation and reasoning with ontologies for acquisition of implicit learning is gaining more attention among general communities. Agriculture being a dynamic economic sector in the Sri Lankan context, can massively benefit from such a knowledge repository that can be accessed and maintained by the community. However, existing approaches for ontology maintenance are complex and are designed for users with ontology-engineering expertise. Thus, despite numerous benefits, adoption and diffusion of ontology based knowledge systems within ontology-illiterate agriculture community is significantly hindered. This study investigates means of addressing the said limitation by proposing a user-friendly mechanism to incorporate evolving knowledge into ontologies. Updating the ontology structure while assuring real-time consistency maintenance is considered the prime objective of the approach. Task based evaluation results prove the effectiveness of our approach against the existing work.

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  1. University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, 07, Sri Lanka

    S. W. A. D. M. Samarasinghe & M. D. J. S. Goonetillake

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka

    A. I. Walisadeera

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Samarasinghe, S.W.A.D.M., Walisadeera, A.I., Goonetillake, M.D.J.S. (2016). User-Friendly Ontology Structure Maintenance Mechanism Targeting Sri Lankan Agriculture Domain. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9790. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_3

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