Regular Paper
Human-centered ontology engineering: The HCOME methodology
Konstantinos Kotis1 
and George A. Vouros1
| (1) | Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Karlovassi, 83200, Greece |
Received: 7 October 2004 Revised: 23 March 2005 Accepted: 9 April 2005 Published online: 9 September 2005
Abstract The fast emergent and continuously evolving areas of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management make the incorporation of ontology engineering tasks in knowledge-empowered organizations and in the World Wide Web more than necessary. In such environments, the development and evolution of ontologies must be seen as a dynamic process that has to be supported through the entire ontology life cycle, resulting to living ontologies. The aim of this paper is to present the
Human-
Centered
Ontology Engineering
Methodology (HCOME) for the development and evaluation of living ontologies in the context of communities of knowledge workers. The methodology aims to empower knowledge workers to continuously manage their formal conceptualizations in their day-to-day activities and shape their information space by being actively involved in the ontology life cycle. The paper also demonstrates the
Human
Centered
ONtology Engineering
Environment, HCONE, which can effectively support this methodology.
Keywords Semantic web - Ontology engineering - Human-centered computign - Knowledge management
George VOUROS (B.Sc. Ph.D.) holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence all from the University of Athens, Greece. Currently he is a Professor and Head of the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece, Director of the AI Lab and head of the Intelligent and Cooperative Systems Group (InCoSys). He has done research in the areas of Expert Systems, Knowledge management, Collaborative Systems, Ontologies, and Agent-based Systems. His published scientific work includes more than 80 book chapters, journal and national and international conference papers in the above-mentioned themes. He has served as program chair and chair and member of organizing committees of national and international conferences on related topics.
Konstantinos KOTIS (B.Sc. Ph.D.) holds a B.Sc. in Computation from the University of Manchester, UK (1995), and a Ph.D. in Information Management from University of the Aegean, Greece (May, 2005). Currently, he is a member of the Intelligent and Cooperative Systems Group (InCoSys) and director of the Information Technology Department of the Prefecture of Samos, Greece. His research and published work concerns Knowledge management, Ontology Engineering and Semantic Web. He has lectured in several IT seminars and has served as member of program committees in international workshops.
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