Ontologies and the brain: Using spreading activation through ontologies to support personal interaction

TitleOntologies and the brain: Using spreading activation through ontologies to support personal interaction
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsKatifori A, Vassilakis C, Dix A
JournalCognitive Systems Research
VolumeVolume 11, Issue 1
Pagination25-41
AbstractOntologies, as knowledge engineering tools, allow information to be modelled in ways resembling to those used by the human brain, and may be very useful in the context of personal information management (PIM) and task information management (TIM). This work proposes the use of ontologies as a long-term knowledge store for PIM-related information, and the use of spreading activation over ontologies in order to provide context inference to tools that support TIM. Details on the ontology creation and content are provided, along with a full description of the spreading activation algorithm and its preliminary evaluation. Β© 2009 Elsevier B.V.
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DOI10.1016/j.cogsys.2009.02.001