Authors:
Jose Lozano
;
Joel Carbonera
;
Marcelo Pimenta
and
Mara Abel
Affiliation:
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Ontology, Ontology View, Ontology Engineering, Human-computer Interaction, Interface, Interaction, Visual Query Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
HCI on Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Interaction Techniques and Devices
;
Interface Design
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Nowadays many petroleum companies are adopting different knowledge-based systems in order to improve the
reservoir quality prediction. In the last years, these systems have been adopting ontologies for representing
the domain knowledge. However, there are still some challenges to overcome for allowing geologists with
different backgrounds to retrieve information without the help of an information technology expert. New
terminology can be added to the ontology, making the user interaction cumbersome, especially for the novice
users. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines ontology views with Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI) techniques, for improving the user interaction in computer applications, by reducing the overload of
information with which the user should handle for performing tasks. We propose RockQuery; a new Visual
Query System that applies our approach, and which is able to present to the user only the knowledge that
is relevant for supporting the required query
formulation. In addition, the interaction design of RockQuery
includes data visualizations that help geologists to make sense of the retrieved data. In order to test our
approach, we evaluated the impact of using ontology views in the performance of the users for formulating
queries.
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