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Semantic Web Modelling Draft Proposal Draft - Semantic Web Modelling Centre of Excellence - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#SemanticWebModellingCentreofExcellence - Overview.

User Driven Modelling Semantic Wiki - http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A143074S3496911 - Community.

UWE Student Project - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Web%20Semantic/Index.html - Investigating and implement the idea of 'ModConsWest' (Modelling and Constructionism with Web based E-Learning Semantic Tools)" - Lee Ediagbonya and Awaab Eltahir.

Usability Survey

I'm developing a survey on usability, I don't think it's quite right yet, but I would still welcome anyone using it to leave feedback on my research topic (or about the survey) - Click Here to take part in a usability survey, and support my PhD research, for anyone who does not want to remain anonymous, I would be pleased to take an interest in their research.

The survey compares these interfaces -

Taxonomy - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration1.htm.

Diagrammatic - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration2.htm.

And asks for further advice on end-user programming.

I'm interested in feedback from anyone, whatever their level of IT skills.

Survey Results - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm#SurveyResults - http://www.toluna.com/polls/37921/Do_You_Think_End-User_Programming_can_be_made_possible?.

Modelling Proposal - Examples Page

User Driven Modelling

We intend to partner with industry, other academics, and interested people in order to build a semantic web modelling system for end user programming. In order to achieve this we want to examine applications that aim to assist in this, and then write extensively about how we used them and how they helped towards our goal. We particularly want to target modelling that is too complex for use of spreadsheets, and sharing of information via an ontology.

The idea behind this form of modelling is that software users (in this case engineers) can create models that perform and visualise calculations (cost of manufacture and the reasons behind this cost). The advantage of this is that the engineers can share and adjust models without needing to call upon a software developer to re-engineer the model. The time saved can give engineers the chance to cost designs early. This could allow the design to be changed before most of the future costs are incurred.

I have created examples of User Driven Modelling, which I am developing to aid computer literate users to create software models. These examples are applied to aircraft cost optimisation, though the technique should have a wide range of applications firstly in modelling and eventually more general applications. I am putting as many as possible of these examples onto a web site and seeking comments and feedback for testing these techniques. I am also linking my research site into networks of sites for those with similar research interests. This also supports a proposal which I am working on (for a Semantic Web Modelling Centre of Excellence) to provide a network of support for modelling researchers, and an infrastructure to allow them to add models to a structured and searchable web site. This would be combined with a seminars and conference to allow developers and users of models to work together.

Dissemination

This page is part of our research publishing, and created to encourage collaboration. Dissemination of the research will be via, journals, semantic web and modelling courses, and a web based modelling network. This web modelling network has been prototyped by [Vanguard], and several universities including ours. The [Energy Community] shows an example of a semantic publishing collaboration of the kind will create, and link with. Also we have partnerships with [Hewlett-Packard], and [Koala publishing], the [West of England Aerospace Forum], and the [Association of Aerospace Universities]. We are also building partnerships with researchers from the publishers [O'Reilly XML.com], this links with their [AspectXML]. Through all these links we will organise semantic web educational and training events and online, conference, and journal publishing. We will create community pages such as this one for our [Protégé work]. A [web site] for dissemination of information has been created and explanations and examples of our research have been added. Many of the pages allow for editing and interactivity and the intention here is to create [individual learning objects] which will be freely available. These will be created using open standard languages for ease of searching and reuse. These objects will enable people to create their own modelling web pages. Exploitation will be through the [Institute for End User Computing (IEUC)] which aims to provide technology to allow users to program. Vanguard are donating multi user Vanguard System (Vanguard System) licences to use throughout our university, and are rolling out similar schemes in other universities. This allows us to distribute our models easily, and allow others to create models.

Links

AspectXML Project - http://www.aspectxml.org/.

Association of Aerospace Universities - http://www.aau.ac.uk/.

Decision Support System Resources - http://www.DSSResources.COM/ - DSSResources.COM (Decision Support Systems Resources) is a web-based knowledge repository. The mission of this site is to help people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making.

Energy Community - http://www.visualknowledge.com/vkgw/vk?ObjectKey=A23781S1028&ObjectMessage=renderForm:&formContext=A48011S3496911 - Let's look at our Networked Improvement Community (NIC) and ask ourselves: "What is our NIC's 'Improvement Vector'?" and "Can we work together on improving how we improve?".

Institute for End User Computing - http://www.ieuc.org/home.html/.

Koala Publishing - http://www.koalapub.co.uk/ - Using XML software tools to create structured technical documentation.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/.

Polsani P R, Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects, 2003, Journal of Digital Information, Volume 3 Issue 4.

Protégé Community Wiki - User Driven Progamming - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UserDrivenProgramming/.

SEEDS team Navigation Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/.

Vanguard Software - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/ - Global Knowledge Portal.

West of England Aerospace Forum - http://www.weaf.co.uk/.

Please Contact me if you have any free models or educational resources you would like me to add -

Models

Free Online Education and training

UWE

Mathematics, Statistics, and Excel

Mathematics and Statistics tutorials - http://science.uwe.ac.uk/MathsStats/videolink/examples.htm - Essential Mathematics & Statistics for Science - Excel, and Statistics Tutorials - Dr G Currell & Dr A A Dowman - Applied Sciences - Further Information -UWE scientists develop web based chemistry tutorials - UWE news 1st November 2006.

Other

ICT Hub - http://www.ictconsortium.org.uk/ - The ICT Hub is a group of voluntary sector organisations who have come together to plan and deliver a co-ordinated framework of ICT guidance, good practice, advice and support for voluntary and community organisations, accessible at a local level.

OpenLearn - Open University - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ - Making Educational Resources Freely Available.

REASE - the repository of EASE for learning units in the area of Semantic Web! - http://ubp.l3s.uni-hannover.de/ubp - REASE supports sharing knowledge for Higher Education as well as for industrial education in the area of Semantic Web and is open to any member of the academic, research, or professional community.

UWE Links

DSA2006 - http://dsa2006.blogspot.com/ - This blog supports the group of students taking Data, Schemas and Applications UFIEKG-20-3, a module taught in the Information Systems School at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

Economic Models - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/EconomicModels/ModelsVisualised.htm.

E-Learning - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning.htm.

Examples and Explanations - Visualisation and Interaction.

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

Scientific Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#UWEExamples.

SEEDS Modelling - SEEDS - Modelling

SEEDS Modelling Page - SEEDS - Modelling Page

Semantic Web Modelling - Semantic Web Modelling.

Space Horizons - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/JANS/spacehorizons/ - Space Horizons is a project that aims to deliver ideas on space and any other related information. Based in the South-West of England, Space Horizons also promotes the idea of space tourism which we are very much involved with. It's the place to be for any space related news, events and information in the South West of England! - Information Technology Management for Business - Year 2.

Space Horizons - UWE - JANS Student Group Project

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) - SVG Wing Box - Interactive Diagrams

SVG Page - SVG Wing Page - Explanations and Links to Examples.

Visualisation and Interaction Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.

Interaction Internal Links

DSA2006 - http://dsa2006.blogspot.com/ - This blog supports the group of students taking Data, Schemas and Applications UFIEKG-20-3, a module taught in the Information Systems School at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by using Visual Metaphors - HTML - HTML Version - Word - Word Adobe Acrobat PDF

End User Development - SEEDS - End User to Software Translation

End-User Programming - Modelling of Information - Article

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

Scientific Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#UWEExamples.

Space Horizons - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/JANS/spacehorizons/ - Space Horizons is a project that aims to deliver ideas on space and any other related information. Based in the South-West of England, Space Horizons also promotes the idea of space tourism which we are very much involved with. It's the place to be for any space related news, events and information in the South West of England! - Information Technology Management for Business - Year 2.

Space Horizons - UWE - JANS Student Group Project

User Driven Content Creation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#userdrivencontentcreation.

User Driven Programming - here - User Driven Programming, and here - Translation and Aspect-Oriented Programming, and Translation for De-abstraction.

Interaction External Links

BBC Technology news - Virtual worlds opened up to all - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7002479.stm - A free tool that allows anyone to create a virtual world has been launched. - Users of Metaplace, as it is known, can build 3D online worlds for PCs or even a mobile phone without any knowledge of complex computer languages. - Jonathan Fildes - Science and technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco - 19 September 2007.

Distributed Constructionism - http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/Distrib-Construc.html - Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Northwestern University (accepted: March 1996; published: July 1996) - This paper introduces the concept of distributed constructionism, building on previous research on constructionism and on distributed cognition. It focuses particularly on the use of computer networks to support students working together on design and construction activities, and it argues that these types of activities are particularly effective in supporting the development of knowledge-building communities. The paper describes three main categories of distributed constructionist activities: discussing constructions, sharing constructions, and collaborating on constructions. In each category, it describes ongoing research projects at the MIT Media Lab and discusses how these projects support new ways of thinking and learning.

EUSES Web Macro Scenario Corpus - http://web.macro.corpus.googlepages.com/view.html?url=home - Web macros use the programming-by-example concept to automate user actions within a web browser. Although web macro recorders and players have grown in sophistication over the past decade, we believe that these tools cannot yet meet the needs of real users. Based on observations of browser users, we have compiled various scenarios describing tasks that end users would benefit from automating using web macros.

Java Climate Model - http://jcm.chooseclimate.org/.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder - http://www.metaplace.com/.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder My Blog Post - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/09/metaplace-online-virtual-world-builder.html.

Nasa Aircraft Engines - Simulation - Requires Java Virtual Machine (free download) - EngineSim Version 1.7a .

NASA - Cost Estimating Web Site - http://cost.jsc.nasa.gov/models.htm - Online Cost Models.

NASA Open Source Software - http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/ - AMES Research Center.

VastPark - http://www.vastpark.com/ - VastPark is a virtual content platform that enables you to create and deploy your own 3D virtual world within minutes.

Visual Knowledge - http://www.visualknowledge.com - We build conventional applications that are driven by ontologies rather than by code. A great deal of our underlying systems and frameworks are also model driven; the entire architecture is extremely portable, fast and robust.

Community Projects

Community Projects - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#communityprojects.

Conferences - Computing and Aerospace

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/Events.htm.

Home Pages

SEEDS Page - SEEDS Home Page

Software Engineering Research Group - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/researchgroup.php?menu=off&group=serg - SERG's mission is to bridge the gap between software engineering research and its application to different disciplines.

Peter Home Page - Peter Hale Home Page

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