Richard Benjamins

Iuriservice II: ontology development and architectural design

This paper shows the ontology development for the second version of the prototype Iuriservice II, an i-FAQ for judicial use containing a repository of professional judicial knowledge. We define the epistemological and ontological levels as separate issues. The domain and middle-out ontology will be connected to the SEKT top and upper level ontology PROTON. In the second part of the paper, we introduce a refinement of the architectural design, especially conceived to improve the user/system interaction by using searching, scoring and matching algorithms for a multidisciplinary ontological processing.

SWS for financial overdrawn alerting

In this paper, we present a Notification Agent designed and implemented using Semantic Web Services. The Notification Agent manages alerts when critical financial situations arise discovering and selecting notification services. This agent applies open research results on the Semantic Web Services technologies including on-the-fly composition based on a finite state machine and automatic discovery of semantic services. Financial Domain ontologies, based on IFX financial standard, have been constructed and extended for building agent systems using OWL and OWL-S standard (as well as other approaches like DL or f-Logic). This agent is going to be offered through integrated Online Aggregation systems in commercial financial organizations.

Personal eBanking Solutions based on Semantic Web Services

We describe how Semantic Web Service technology can be used for the provision of personal e-banking online services. We describe two deployed applications: an overdraft notification service and a mortgage comparison service. The former accesses the bank accounts of a user as well as utility goods Web sites where invoicing information is stored and estimates whether the user will be in an overdraft situation in the near future, alerting him/her by e-mail or SMS. The latter accesses the mortgage information provided by the heterogeneous Web sites of different banks and allows users to compare them according to different types of criteria. The chapter not only focuses on the technological decisions followed to implement and deploy these services, but also on the added value of applying Semantic Web Services for them.

A Customer Notification Agent for Financial Overdrawn Using Semantic Web Services

In this paper, we present a Notification Agent designed and implemented using Semantic Web Services. The Notification Agent manages alerts when critical financial situations arise discovering and selecting multichannel notification services. This agent applies open research results on the Semantic Web Services technologies including on-the-fly composition based on a finite state machine and automatic discovery of semantic services. Financial Domain ontologies, based on IFX financial standard, have been constructed and extended for building agent systems using OWL and OWL-S standard (as well as other approaches like DL or f-Logic). This agent is going to be offered through integrated Online Aggregation systems in commercial financial organizations.

How to Make It Faster and at Lower Cost? B2B Integration with Semantic Web Services

Web services and service oriented architectures present a new approach to application integration. While it is reasonable inside an enterprise, it has certain deficiencies when applied in a B2B environment. These deficiencies apply to the discovery, invocation and composition phases, which require considerable manual effort. In the paper, we show on example of a mortgage simulator how these deficiencies can be overcome by applying semantic Web services. The application is compatible with the Web services modelling ontology and makes use of an execution environment automating the processes of discovery, composition and invocation of semantic Web services, enabling faster and cheaper B2B application integration