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2011
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Mustafa Jarrar: Building a Formal Arabic
Ontology (Invited Paper) . In proceedings of
the Experts
Meeting on Arabic Ontologies and Semantic Networks.
Alecso, Arab League. Tunis, July 26-28, 2011.
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Keywords: Arabic Ontology,
Arabic Lexical Semantics, Arabic WordNet,
WordNet, FrameNet, Gloss, Concept, Arabic Upper
Level Ontology, Arabic Top Level Ontology,
Arabic Core Ontology
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Mustafa Jarrar, Anton Deik, Bilal Faraj: Ontology-based Data and
Process Governance Framework -The Case of
e-Government Interoperability in Palestine. In
pre-proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium
on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
(SIMPDA’11). ####. Pages(83-98). ISBN
978-88-903120-2-1. Campione, Italy. June 30, 2011.
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Abstract. The major challenge
when integrating information systems in any
domain such as e-Government is the challenge of
Interoperability. One can distinguish between
three aspects of Interoperability; technical,
semantic, and organizational. The technical
aspect has been widely tackled especially after
the ubiquity of internet technologies. The
semantic and organizational aspects deal with
sharing the same understanding (semantics) of
exchanged information among all applications and
services, in addition to modeling and
re-engineering governmental processes to
facilitate process cooperation that provision
seamless e-government services. In this paper,
we present the case of the Palestinian
Interoperability Framework ‘Zinnar’, which is a
use case of using ontology in e-government
(i.e., data and process governance) to tackle
the issues of semantic and organizational
interoperability. The followed methodology
resulted in a success story within a very short
time and has produced a framework that is
intuitive, elegant, and easy to understand and
implement.
Keywords: Interoperability,
Data Integration, e-Government, Ontology, Data
Governance, Process Governance, Business Process
Modeling
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@article{ JDF11,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Anton Deik and Bilal Faraj },
title={ Ontology-based
Data and Process Governance Framework -The Case
of e-Government Interoperability in Palestine},
booktitle={ Pre-proceedings
of the IFIP International Symposium on
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
(SIMPDA’11)},
year={ 2011},
month={ 6},
publisher={ ###},
pages={ 83-98},
location={ Campione,
Italy},
isbn={ 9788890312021},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JDF11}
}
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Gianluca Elia, Mustafa Jarrar: Guest Editorial: Knowledge
Management and e-Human Resources Practices for
Innovation. The International Journal of
Knowledge and Learning (IJKL). Inderscience
Publishers. (To Appear).
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Abstract.....
Keywords:Knowledge Management,
HR, KM, profile mapping, Competency,
Competencies analysis, Competence ontologies,
Interoperability, Roadmaps, for fostering
creativity, creativity, serendipity, profiling
innovation, complementarity. Learning, e-Human
Resources, Linked-Data, Semantic Web, Data Web,
Linked Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0, RDF, SPARQL,
Languages, Query-by-Diagram, Mashups, Query
Pipelines, Human Factors, Design, Management.
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@article{ CJ11,
author={ Gianluca Elia and
Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Guest
Editorial: Knowledge Management and e-Human
Resources Practices for Innovation},
journal={ The
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning},
year={ 2011},
month={ xx },
publisher={ http://www.inderscience.com},
volume={ xxx},
ISSN={ xx},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#CJ11},
url={}
}
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Paolo Ceravolo, Chengfei Liu, Mustafa Jarrar,
Kai-Uwe Sattler: Guest Editorial: Querying the
Data Web -Novel techniques for querying structured
data on the web.. The World Wide Web Journal.
Springer. August 2011. ISSN:1573-1413.
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Keywords:Linked-Data, Semantic
Web, Data Web, Linked Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0,
RDF, SPARQL, Languages, Query-by-Diagram,
Mashups, Query Pipelines, Human Factors, Design,
Management.
2010
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Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: A Query Formulation Language
for the Data Web. IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering.IEEE Computer
Society. (2010, In Press).
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Abstract.We present a query
formulation language (called MashQL) in order to
easily query and fuse structured data on the
web. The main novelty of MashQL is that it
allows people with limited IT-skills to explore
and query one (or multiple) data sources without
prior knowledge about the schema, structure,
vocabulary, or any technical details of these
sources. More importantly, to be robust and
cover most cases in practice, we do not assume
that a data source should have -an offline or
inline- schema. This poses several
language-design and performance complexities
that we fundamentally tackle. To illustrate the
query formulation power of MashQL, and without
loss of generality, we chose the Data Web
scenario. We also chose querying RDF, as it is
the most primitive data model; hence, MashQL can
be similarly used for querying relational
databases and XML. We present two
implementations of MashQL, an online mashup
editor, and a Firefox add-on. The former
illustrates how MashQL can be used to query and
mash up the Data Web as simple as filtering and
piping web feeds; and the Firefox addon
illustrates using the browser as a web composer
rather than only a navigator. To end, we
evaluate MashQL on querying two datasets, DBLP
and DBPedia, and show that our indexing
techniques allow instant user-interaction.
Keywords:Query Formulation,
Semantic Web, Data Web, RDF, SPARQL, Indexing
Methods, Query Optimization, Mashup,
Linked-Data, Semantic Web, Data Web, Linked
Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0, RDF, SPARQL, Languages,
Query-by-Diagram, Mashups, Query Pipelines,
Human Factors, Design, Management.
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Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: Querying the Data Web –the
MashQL Approach. IEEE Internet Computing.
Volume 14, No. 3. Pages (58-670). IEEE Computer
Society, ISSN 1089-7801. May 2010.
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Abstract.MashQL, a novel query
formulation language for querying and mashing up
structured data on the Web, doesn’t require
users to know the queried data’s structure or
the data itself to adhere to a schema. In this
article, the authors address MashQL’s challenges
as a language (as opposed to an interface) in
assuming data to be schema-free. In particular,
they propose and evaluate a novel technique for
optimizing queries over large data sets to allow
instant user interaction.
Keywords:Query Formulation,
Semantic Web, Data Web, RDF, SPARQL, Indexing
Methods, Query Optimization, Mashup,
Linked-Data, Semantic Web, Data Web, Linked
Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0, RDF, SPARQL, Languages,
Query-by-Diagram, Mashups, Query Pipelines,
Human Factors, Design, Management.
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@Article{ JD10a,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Marios D. Dikaiakos},
title={ Querying the
Data Web –the MashQL Approach.},
journal={ IEEE
Internet Computing.},
pages={ 58-67},
year={ 2010},
month={ May},
publisher={ IEEE Computer
Society},
volume={ 14},
issue={ 3},
ISSN={ 1089-7801},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JD10a}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar, Paolo Ceravolo: (eds): Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Ontology content and
evaluation (OnToContent 2010). In OTM 2010
Workshops. Page 367. LNCS:6428, Springer.
ISBN:9783642169601. October 2010.
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@inproceedings{ JC10,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Paolo Ceravolo },
title={ Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Ontology content
and evaluation(OnToContent 2010)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010
Workshops},
year={ 2010},
month={ October},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Crete,
Greece},
pages={ 367},
volume={ 6428},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 9783642169601},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16961-8},
url={ http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/otm/JarrarC10},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JC10},
}
2009
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Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: A Data Mashup Language for
the Data Web. Proceedings of LDOW, WWW'09.
ACM. ISSN 1613-0073. (2009).
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Abstract.This paper is
motivated by the massively increasing structured
data on the Web (Data Web), and the need for
novel methods to exploit these data to their
full potential. Building on the remarkable
success of Web 2.0 mashups, this paper regards
the internet as a database, where each web data
source is seen as a table, and a mashup is seen
as a query over these sources. We propose a data
mashup language, which allows people to
intuitively query and mash up structured and
linked data on the web. Unlike existing query
methods, the novelty of MashQL is that it allows
people to navigate, query, and mash up a data
source(s) without any prior knowledge about its
schema, vocabulary, or technical details. We
even do not assume even that a data source
should an online or inline schema. Furthermore,
MashQL supports query pipes as a built-in
concept, rather than only a visualization of
links between modules.
Keywords:Linked-Data, Semantic
Web, Data Web, Linked Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0,
RDF, SPARQL, Languages, Query-by-Diagram,
Mashups, Query Pipelines, Human Factors, Design,
Management.
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@inproceedings{ JD09,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Marios D. Dikaiakos},
title={ A Data Mashup
Language for the Data Web},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the WWW2009 Workshop on Linked Data on the
Web},
year={ 2009},
month={ April},
publisher={ CEUR Workshop
Proceedings},
volume={ 538},
ISSN={ 1613-0073},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JD09},
url={ http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-538/ldow2009_paper14.pdf}
}
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Sergey Lukichev and Mustafa Jarrar: Graphical Notations for Rule
Modeling. Book chapter in "Handbook of
Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and
Technologies". IGI Global. ISBN:1-60566-402-2.
(2009)
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Abstract. This chapter describes
various graphical notations for rule modeling.
Rule modeling methodologies, empowered with
graphical notations, play an important role in
helping business experts and rule engineers to
represent business rules formally for further
deployment into a rule execution system. Rules,
represented graphically, can be easier
understood by business people and by technicians
without intensive technical learning. In this
chapter we mainly focus on three graphical
notations for rules: UML/OCL, URML and ORM.
UML/OCL is a mainstream modeling technology in
software development, which is also accommodated
by some business experts when modeling a system
at the semi-formal, platform independent level.
URML extends UML with additional graphical
symbols and the concept of a rule, which allows
visualization of different rule types on top of
UML class diagrams. ORM is an alternative
methodology with a rich graphical notation for
modeling a domain at the conceptual level. The
methodological power, graphical expressivity,
and verbalization capabilities of ORM have made
it the most popular language within the business
rules community. This chapter introduces each of
these graphical notations, explain how it can be
used, and compare them against each other.
close
@inbook{ LJ09,
author={ Sergey Lukichev
and Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Graphical
Notations for Rule Modeling},
chapter={ 4},
pages={ 76-98},
year={ 2009},
publisher={ IGI Global},
volume={ 2},
booktitle={ Handbook
of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and
Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches},
isbn={ 1605664022},
DOI={ http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-402-6.ch004},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#LJ09},
url={ http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/Chapter.aspx?TitleId=35855}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar: Ontology-based Data and
Process Governance Framework -The Case of
e-Government Interoperability in Palestine. In
pre-proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium
on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
(SIMPDA’11). ####. ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1. Campione,
Italy. June 30, 2011.
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Abstract. The major challenge
when integrating information systems in any
domain such as e-Government is the challenge of
Interoperability. One can distinguish between
three aspects of Interoperability; technical,
semantic, and organizational. The technical
aspect has been widely tackled especially after
the ubiquity of internet technologies. The
semantic and organizational aspects deal with
sharing the same understanding (semantics) of
exchanged information among all applications and
services, in addition to modeling and
re-engineering governmental processes to
facilitate process cooperation that provision
seamless e-government services. In this paper,
we present the case of the Palestinian
Interoperability Framework ‘Zinnar’, which is a
use case of using ontology in e-government
(i.e., data and process governance) to tackle
the issues of semantic and organizational
interoperability. The followed methodology
resulted in a success story within a very short
time and has produced a framework that is
intuitive, elegant, and easy to understand and
implement.
Keywords: Interoperability,
Data Integration, e-Government, Ontology, Data
Governance, Process Governance, Business Process
Modeling
close
@article{ JDF11,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar},
title={
Ontology-based Data and Process Governance
Framework -The Case of e-Government
Interoperability in Palestine },
booktitle={ Pre-proceedings
of the IFIP International Symposium on
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
(SIMPDA’11)},
year={ 2011},
month={ 6},
publisher={ Alecso,
Arab League},
location={
Campione, Italy },
isbn={ 9788890312021 },
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JDF11}
}
2008
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Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D.
Dikaiakos: MashQL: A Query-by-Diagram
Language -Towards Semantic Data Mashups.
Proceedings of ONISW'08, part of the ACM CiKM
conference. ACM. pages (89-96) ISBN 9781605582559.
(2008).
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Abstract. This article is
motivated by the importance of building web data
mashups. Building on the remarkable success of
Web 2.0 mashups, and specially Yahoo Pipes, we
generalize the idea of mashups and regard the
Internet as a database. Each internet data
source is seen as a table, and a mashup is seen
as a query on these tables. We assume that web
data sources are represented in RDF, and SPARQL
is the query language.
We propose a query-by-diagram language called
MashQL. The goal is to allow people to build
data mashups diagrammatically. In the
background, MashQL queries are translated into
and executed as SPARQL queries. The novelty of
MashQL is that it allows querying a data source
without any prior understanding of the schema or
the structure of this source. Users also do not
need any knowledge about RDF/SPARQL to get
started.
Keywords: Query-by-Diagram,
Mashups, Query Pipelines, Semantic Web, Data
Web, Linked Data, Web 3.0, Web 2.0, RDF, SPARQL,
Languages, Human Factors, Design, Management.
close
@inproceedings{ J07b,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Marios D. Dikaiakos},
title={ MashQL: a
query-by-diagram topping SPARQL},
booktitle={ ONISW
'08: Proceeding of the 2nd international
workshop on Ontologies and nformation systems
for the semantic web},
location={ Napa
Valley, California, USA},
year={ 2008},
month={ November},
pages={ 89-96},
publisher={ ACM},
isbn={ 978-1-60558-255-9},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JD08},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/resource/publications/conf/cikm/JarrarD08},
doi={ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458484.1458499}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Effectiveness and
Transparency in e-Business Transactions, An
Ontology for Customer Complaint Management. A
book chapter in "Semantic Web Methodologies for
E-Business Applications". chapter 7. pp.127-149. IGI
Global. ISBN:978-1-60566-066-0. (2008)
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Abstract. This chapter presents
an ontology for customer complaint management,
which has been developed in the CCFORM project.
CCFORM is an EU funded project (IST-2001-38248)
with an aim of studying the foundation of a
central European customer complaint portal. The
idea is that any consumer can register a
complaint against any party about any problem,
at one portal. This portal should: support 11
languages, be sensitive to cross-border business
regulations, dynamic, and can be extended by
companies. To manage this dynamicity and to
control companies' extensions, a customer
complaint ontology (CContology) has to be built
to underpin the CC portal. In other words, the
complaint forms are generated based on the
ontology. The CContology comprises
classifications of complaint problems, complaint
resolutions, complainant, complaint-recipient,
''best-practices'', rules of complaint, etc. The
main uses of this ontology are 1) to enable
consistent implementation (and interoperation)
of all software complaint management mechanisms
based on a shared background vocabulary, which
can be used by many stakeholders. 2) to play the
role of a domain ontology that encompasses the
core complaining elements and that can be
extended by either individual or groups of
firms; and 3) to generate CC-forms based on its
ontological commitments and to enforce the
validity (and/or integrity) of their population.
To end, we outline our experience in applying
the methodological principles
(Double-Articulation and Modularization) and the
tool (DogmaModeler) that we used in developing
the CContology.
Keywords: e-Commerce, CRM,
Customer Relationship management, Customer
Complaints Forms, Ontology, Customer Complaint
Ontology, Semantics, Domain Axiomatization,
Multilingual Ontology, Ontology Engineering,
Methodology, Double Articulation, Modularization
Context, Gloss, Lexon, DogmaModeler.
close
@inbook{ J08,
author={ Mustafa
Jarrar},
title={ Towards
Effectiveness and Transparency in e-Business
Transactions, An Ontology for Customer Complaint
Management},
chapter={ 7},
year={ 2008},
publisher={ IGI Global},
pages={ 127-149},
booktitle={ Semantic
Web Methodologies for E-Business Applications},
ISBN={ 978-1-60566-066-0},
doi={ 10.4018/978-1-60566-066-0.ch007},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#J08},
url={ http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Chapter.aspx?TitleId=28866},
DOI={ http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-066-0.ch007}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Stijn Heymans: Towards Pattern-based
Reasoning for Friendly Ontology Debugging.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Volume 17.
No.4. World Scientific Publishing. August 2008.
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Abstract. Reasoning with
ontologies is a challenging task specially for
non-logic experts. When checking whether an
ontology contains rules that contradict each
other, current description logic reasoners can
only provide a list of the unsatisfiable
concepts. Figuring out why these concepts are
unsatisfiable, which rules cause conflicts, and
how to resolve these conflicts, is all left to
the ontology modeler himself. The problem
becomes even more challenging in case of large
or medium size ontologies, because an
unsatisfiable concept may cause many of its
neighboring concepts to be unsatisfiable. The
goal of this article is to empower ontology
engineering with a user-friendly reasoning
mechanism. We propose a pattern-based reasoning
approach, which offers 9 patterns of constraint
contradictions that lead to unsatisfiability in
Object-role (ORM) models. The novelty of this
approach is not merely that constraint
contradictions are detected, but mainly that it
provides the causes and suggestions to resolve
contradictions. The approach is implemented in
the DogmaModeler ontology engineering tool, and
tested in building the CCFORM ontology. We
discuss that, although this pattern-based
reasoning covers most of contradictions in
practice, compared with description logic based
reasoning, it is not complete. We argue and
illustrate both approaches, pattern-based and
description logic-based, their implementation in
the DogmaModeler, and conclude that both
complement each other from a methodological
perspective.
Keywords: Ontology Engineering;
Reasoning; Satisfiability; Model Verification;
Debugging; Ontology Tools; Object Role Model.
close
@article{ JH08,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Stijn Heymans},
title={ Towards
Pattern-based Reasoning for Friendly Ontology
Debugging},
journal={ International
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools},
volume={ 17},
number={ 4},
pages={ 607-634},
month={ August},
year={ 2008},
publisher={ World
Scientific Publishing},
ISSN={ 0218-2130},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JH08},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/journals/ijait/JarrarH08},
DOI={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218213008004072}
}
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Mustafa
Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Ontology Engineering -The
DOGMA Approach. Book Chapter in "Advances in
Web Semantics I". Chapter 3. Pages 7-34. LNCS 4891,
Springer.ISBN:978-3540897835. (2008).
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Abstract. The main goal of this
chapter is to present a methodological framework
for ontology engineering (called DOGMA), which
is aimed to guide ontology builders towards
building ontologies that are both highly
reusable and usable, easier to build, and
smoother to maintain. First, we investigate the
main foundational challenges in ontology
engineering. We examine to what extent one can
build an ontology independently of application
requirements at hand. We discuss ontology
reusability verses ontology usability. Second,
we present the DOGMA approach, and its
philosophy and formalization, which suggests
that an ontology be built as separate domain
axiomatization and application axiomatizations.
While a domain axiomatization focuses on the
characterization of the intended meaning (i.e.
intended models) of a vocabulary at the domain
level, application axiomatizations mainly focus
on the usability of this vocabulary according to
certain application/usability perspectives. An
application axiomatization is intended to
specify the legal models (a subset of the
intended models) of the application(s)'
interest. Furthermore, we show how specification
languages such as (ORM, UML, EER, OWL, etc.) can
be well (re)used in ontology engineering.
Keywords: Ontology
Engineering; Lexical Semantics, DOGMA, Object
Role Modeling; ORM;
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@inbook{ JM08,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman},
title={ Ontology
Engineering -The DOGMA Approach},
chapter={ 3},
year={ 2008},
publisher={ Springer},
volume={ 4891},
series={ LNCS},
pages={ 7-34},
booktitle={ Advances
in Web Semantic I},
isbn={ 978-3540897835},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JM08},
url={ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1505684},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89784-2_2}
}
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Ramon F. Brena, Andreas Schmidt, Mustafa Jarrar,
Werner Ceusters, Francisco J. Cantu: (eds): Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Ontology content and
evaluation (OnToContent 2007). In OTM 2008
Workshops. Page 583. LNCS:5333, Springer. ISBN:
9783540888741. November 2008.
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@inproceedings{ RSJCC09,
author={ Ramon F. Brena and
Andreas Schmidt
and Mustafa Jarrar and
Werner Ceusters
and Francisco J. Cantu},
title={ Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Ontology content
and evaluation(OnToContent 2008)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008
Workshops},
year={ 2008},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Monterrey,
Mexico},
pages={ 583},
volume={ 5333},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 9783540888741},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_81},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/resource/publications/conf/otm/BrenaSJCC08},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#RSJCC09},
}
2007
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Mustafa Jarrar: Mapping ORM into the
SHOIN/OWL Description Logic- Towards a
Methodological and Expressive Graphical Notation
for Ontology Engineering. In OTM 2007
workshops: Proceedings of the International Workshop
on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'07). Pages (729-741),
LNCS 4805, Springer. ISBN: 9783540768890. Portogal.
November, 2007
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Abstract. We map ORM into the
SHOIN/OWL, which is the most common description
logic in ontology engineering. As SHOIN/OWL is
known to be a good compromise between
expressiveness and computational complexity,
this implies that the ORM constraints mapped in
this paper are the constraints that are easier
to implement and reason about. Our mappings are
implemented as an extension to the DogmaModeler
tool, which uses Racer as a background reasoning
engine. Furthermore, the expressive,
methodological, and graphical capabilities of
ORM make it a good candidate for use as a
graphical notation for ontology languages. In
this way, industrial experts who are not IT
savvy will still be able to build and view
ontologies without needing to know the logic or
reasoning foundations underpinning them.
close
@inproceedings{ J07b,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Mapping ORM
into the SHOIN/OWL description logic- Towards a
Methodological and Expressive Graphical Notation
for Ontology Engineering},
booktitle={ OTM
2007 workshops: Proceedings of the International
Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'07)},
year={ 2007},
month={ November},
pages={ 729-741},
volume={ 4805},
series={ LNCS},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Portogal},
isbn={ 9783540768890},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#J07b},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/otm/Jarrar07},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_95}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar: Towards Automated Reasoning
on ORM Schemes. -Mapping ORM into the DLR_idf
description logic. In proceedings of the 26th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER
2007). Pages (181-197). LNCS 4801, Springer.
Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 9783540755623. November
2007
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Abstract. The goal of this
article is to formalize Object Role Modeling
(ORM) using the DLR description logic. This
would enable automated reasoning on the formal
properties of ORM diagrams, such as detecting
constraint contradictions and implications. In
addition, the expressive, methodological, and
graphical capabilities of ORM make it a good
candidate for use as a graphical notation for
most description logic languages. In this way,
industrial experts who are not IT savvy will
still be able to build and view axiomatized
theories (such as ontologies, business rules,
etc.) without needing to know the logic or
reasoning foundations underpinning them. Our
formalization in this paper is structured as 29
formalization rules, that map all ORM primitives
and constraints into DLR, and 2 exceptions of
complex cases. To this end, we illustrate the
implementation of our formalization as an
extension to DogmaModeler, which automatically
maps ORM into DIG and uses Racer as a background
reasoning engine to reason about ORM diagrams.
close
@inproceedings{ J07,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Towards
Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes. -Mapping ORM
into the DLR_idf description logic},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the 26th International Conference on
Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007)},
year={ 2007},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ New
Zealand},
pages={ 181-197},
volume={ 4801},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 9783540755623},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#J07},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/er/Jarrar07},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75563-0_14}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar, Andreas Schmidt, Claude Ostyn, and
Werner Ceusters (eds): Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Ontology content and
evaluation (OnToContent 2007). On the Move to
Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2007 Workshops.
Pages (509). LNCS 4805. Springer. Albufeira,
Portugal. ISBN: 978-3540768876. November 2007.
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@inproceedings{ JSOC07,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Andreas Schmidt
and Claude Ostyn and Werner Ceusters},
title={ Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Ontology content
and evaluation (OnToContent 2007)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM
2007 Workshops},
year={ 2007},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Algarve,
Portugal},
pages={ 509},
volume={ 4805},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 978-3540768876},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JSOC07},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/otm/JarrarSOC07},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_73}
}
2006
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Mustafa Jarrar: Towards the notion of gloss,
and the adoption of linguistic resources in formal
ontology engineering. In proceedings of the
15th International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW2006). Edinburgh, Scotland. Pages 497-503. ACM
Press. ISBN: 1595933239. May 2006.
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Abstract. In this paper, we
(first) introduce the notion of gloss for
ontology engineering purposes. We propose that
each vocabulary in an ontology should have a
gloss. A gloss basically is an informal
description of the meaning of a vocabulary that
is supposed to render factual and critical
knowledge to understanding a concept, but that
are unreasonable or very difficult to formalize
and/or articulate formally. We present a set of
guidelines on what should and should not be
provided in a gloss. (Second), we propose to
incorporate linguistic resources in the ontology
engineering process. We clarify the importance
of using lexical resources as a ''consensus
reference'' in ontology engineering, and so
enabling the adoption of the glosses found is
these resources. A linguistic resource (i.e. its
list of terms and their definitions) shall be
seen as a shared vocabulary space for
ontologies. We present an ontology engineering
software tool (called DogmaModeler), and
illustrate its support of reusing of WordNet's
terms and glosses in ontology modeling.
Keywords: Ontology, Formal
ontology engineering, Lexical semantics,
Gloss, WordNet, Ontologies and WordNet,
DogmaModeler.
close
@inproceedings{ J06,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Towards the
notion of gloss, and the adoption of linguistic
resources in formal ontology engineering},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the 15th international conference on World
Wide Web (WWW2006)},
year={ 2006},
month={ May},
publisher={ ACM Press, New York,
NY},
location={ Edinburgh,
Scotland},
pages={ 497-503},
isbn={ 1-59593-323-9},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#J06},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/www/Jarrar06},
doi={ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1135777.1135850}
}
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Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Alia Abdelmoty,
Tiziana Catarci, Ernesto Damiani, Arantza
Illarramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman, Erich
Neuhold, Christine Parent, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Monica
Scannapieco, Stefano Spaccapietra, Peter Spyns, and
Guy De Tre: Viewpoints on Emergent
Semantics. In Stefano Spaccapietra, Karl
Aberer, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (eds): Journal on
Data Semantics. 4090(6):1-27. ISBN: 3540367128.
Springer. 2006.
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Abstract. We introduce a novel
view on how to deal with the problems of
semantic interoperability in distributed
systems. This view is based on the concept of
emergent semantics, which sees both the
representation of semantics and the discovery of
the proper interpretation of symbols as the
result of a self-organizing process performed by
distributed agents exchanging symbols and having
utilities dependent on the proper interpretation
of the symbols. This is a complex systems
perspective on the problem of dealing with
semantics. We highlight some of the distinctive
features of our vision and point out preliminary
examples of its application.
Keywords:Semantic
Interoperability, Emergent Semantics,
Semantics in Distributed Systems, Ontology.
close
@article{ CAA06,
author={ Philippe Cudre-Mauroux
and Karl Aberer and Alia Abdelmoty and
Tiziana Catarci
and Ernesto Damiani
and Arantza Illarramendi
and Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman
and Erich Neuhold and
Christine Parent
and Kai-Uwe Sattler
and Monica Scannapieco
and Stefano Spaccapietra
and Peter Spyns and Guy De Tre},
title={ Viewpoints on
Emergent Semantics},
journal={ Journal on
Data Semantics},
volume={ 4090},
year={ 2006},
Month={ August},
pages={ 1-27},
number={ 6},
publisher={ Springer},
series={ LNCS},
issn={ 0302-9743},
isbn={ 3540367128},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#CAA06},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/journals/jods/Cudre-MaurouxAACDIJMNPSSSST06},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11803034_1}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Stijn Heymans: Unsatisfiability Reasoning
in ORM Conceptual Schemes . In Current Trends
in Database Technology - EDBT 2006: Proceeding of
the IFIP-2.6 International Conference on Semantics
of a Networked. Pages (517-534). LNCS 4254,
Springer. Munich, Germany. ISBN: 3540467882. March
2006.
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Abstract. ORM (Object-Role
Modeling) is a rich and well-known conceptual
modeling method. As ORM has a formal semantics,
reasoning tasks such as satisfiability checking
of an ORM schema naturally arise. Satisfiability
checking allows a developer to automatically
detect contradicting constraints. However, no
complete satisfiability checker is known for
ORM. In this paper, we revisit existing patterns
from literature that indicate unsatisfiability
of ORM schemes i.e., schemes that cannot be
populated, and we propose refinements as well as
additions for them. Although this does not yield
a complete procedure - there may be ORM schemes
passing the pattern checks while containing
unsatisfiable roles - it yields an efficient and
easy to implement detection mechanism (specially
in interactive modeling tools) for the most
common conceptual modeling mistakes.
Keywords: Object Role
Modeling, ORM, NIAM, Conceptual Modeling,
Ontology, Unsatisfiability, Reasoning,
Decidability, DogmaModeler
close
@inproceedings{ JH06,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Stijn Heymans},
title={ Unsatisfiability
Reasoning in ORM Conceptual Schemes},
booktitle={ Current
Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2006:
Proceeding of the IFIP-2.6 International
Conference on Semantics of a Networked},
year={ 2006},
month={ March},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Munich,
Germany},
pages={ 517-534},
volume={ 4254},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540467882},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JH06},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/edbtw/JarrarH06},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11896548_39}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar, Claude Ostyn, Werner Ceusters, and
Andreas Persidis (eds): Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Ontology content and
evaluation (OnToContent 2006). On the Move to
Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006
Workshops. Pages (1011). LNCS 4278, Springer.
Montpellier, France. ISBN: 9783540482734. November
2006.
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@inproceedings{ JOCP06,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Claude Ostyn and Werner Ceusters
and Andreas Persidis},
title={ Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Ontology content
and evaluation (OnToContent 2006)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM
2006 Workshops},
year={ 2006},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer Berlin},
location={ Montpellier,
France},
pages={ 1011},
volume={ 4278},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 9783540482734},
ee={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_78},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JOCP06}
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/otm/JarrarOCP06},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_1}
}
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Katia Sycara, Elizabeth Chang, Ernesto Damiani,
Mustafa Jarrar, and Tharam Dillon (eds): Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP
WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web
Semantics (SWWS'06). On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. Pages
(1723). LNCS 4278, Springer. Montpellier, France.
ISBN: 9783540482734. November 2006.
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@inproceedings{ SCDJD06,
author={ Katia Sycara and Elizabeth Chang
and Ernesto Damiani
and Mustafa Jarrar Tharam Dillon},
title={ Proceedings of
the 2nd IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International
Workshop on Web Semantics (SWWS'06)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM
2006 Workshops},
year={ 2006},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer Berlin},
location={ Montpellier,
France},
pages={ 1723},
volume={ 4278},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 9783540482734},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#SCDJD06},
url={ http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/page/publications/conf/otm/SycaraCDJD06},
doi={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_78}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar, Maria Keet, and Paolo Dongilli: Multilingual verbalization
of ORM conceptual models and axiomatized
ontologies. Technical report. STARLab, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, February 2006.
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Abstract. We present a novel
approach to support multilingual verbalization
of logical theories, axiomatizations, and other
specifications such as business rules. This
engineering solution is demonstrated with the
Object Role Modeling language, although its
underlying principles can be reused with other
conceptual models and formal languages, such as
Description Logics, to improve its
understandability and usability by the domain
expert. Our engineering solution for
multilingual verbalization is characterized by
its flexibility, extensibility and
maintainability of the verbalization templates,
which allow for easy augmentation with other
languages than the 9 currently supported.
Keywords: Verbalization,
Object Role Modeling, ORM, NIAM, Conceptual
Modeling, Ontology, Formal ontology
engineering, DOGMA, DogmaModeler, Business
Rules
close
@techreport{ JKD06a,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Maria Keet and Paolo Dongilli},
title={ Multilingual
verbalization of ORM conceptual models and
axiomatized ontologies},
institution={ Vrije
Universiteit Brussel},
year={ 2006},
month={ February},
location={ Brussels,
Belgium},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JKD06a}
url={},
doi={}
}
2005
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Mustafa Jarrar: Modularization and automatic
composition of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) Schemes.OTM
2005 Workshops: Proceedings of the Object-Role
Modeling (ORM'05). Pages (613-625). LNCS 3762,
Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN: 3540297391.
November 2005.
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Abstract. In this paper we
present a framework and algorithm for
modularization and composition of ORM schemes.
The main goals of modularity are to enable and
increase reusability, maintainability,
distributed development of ORM schemes. Further,
we enable effective browsing and management of
such schemes through libraries of ORM schema
modules. For automatic composition of modules,
we present and implement a composition operator:
all atomic concepts and their relationships
(i.e. fact-types) and all constraints, across
the composed modules, are combined together to
form one schema (called modular schema).
Keywords: Object Role
Modeling, ORM, NIAM, Conceptual Modeling,
Ontology, Formal ontology engineering, DOGMA,
DogmaModeler, Modularization, Composition,
Reusability, Distributed Development,
Maintainability.
close
@inproceedings{ J05a,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Modularization
and Automatic Composition of Object-Role
Modeling (ORM) Schemes},
booktitle={ OTM
2005 Workshops, proceeding of the International
Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'05)},
year={ 2005},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Larnaca,
Cyprus},
pages={ 613-625},
volume={ 3762},
isbn={ 3540297391},
series={ LNCS},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#J05a},
ee={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11575863_81}
}
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Tharam Dillon, Ling Feng, Mustafa Jarrar, Aldo
Gangemi, Joost Breuker, Jos Lehmann, and Andre
Valente (eds): Proceedings of the 1st IFIP
WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web
Semantics (SWWS'06). On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. Pages
(808). LNCS 3762. Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN:
3540297391. November 2005.
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@inproceedings{ DFJ05,
author={ Tharam Dillon Ling Feng and Mustafa Jarrar and
Aldo Gangemi and Joost Breuker and
Jos Lehmann and Andre Valente},
title={ Proceedings of
the 1st IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International
Workshop on Web Semantics (SWWS'06)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM
2005 Workshops},
year={ 2005},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Larnaca,
Cyprus},
pages={ 808},
volume={ 3762},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540297391},
ee={ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11575863_101},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#DFJ05}
}
2004
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Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe
Cudre-Mauroux, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm,
Mohand-Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, Mustafa
Jarrar, Vipul Kashyap, Massimo Mecella, Eduardo
Mena, Erich Neuhold, Aris Ouksel, Thomas Risse,
Monica Scannapieco, Felix Saltor, Luca De Santis,
Stefano Spaccapietra, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer,
and Olga De Troyer: Emergent Semantics Systems.
Proceedings of the first International IFIP 2.6
Conference on Semantics of a Networked World.
Pages(14-44). LNCS 3226, Springer. Paris, France.
ISBN: 3540-236090. June 2004.
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Abstract. With ''peer
production'' becoming commonplace and new
standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the
much anticipated semantic web, a new breed of
very large scale semantic systems is about to
appear. Traditional semantic reconciliation
methods, dependent upon shared vocabularies or
global ontologies, cannot be used in such open
and dynamic environments. Instead, new
heuristics based on emerging properties and
local consensuses have to be exploited in order
to foster semantic interoperability in the
large. In this paper, we outline the main
differences between traditional semantic
reconciliation methods and these new heuristics.
Also, we characterize the resulting emergent
semantics systems and provide a couple of hints
vis-a-vis their potential applications.
close
@inproceedings{ ACC04,
author={ Karl Aberer and Tiziana Catarci
and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux
and Tharam Dillon and
Stephan Grimm and
Mohand-Said Hacid
and Arantza Illarramendi
and Mustafa Jarrar and
Vipul Kashyap and
Massimo Mecella
and Eduardo Mena and Erich Neuhold and
Aris Ouksel and Thomas Risse and Monica Scannapieco
and Felix Saltor and Luca De Santis and
Stefano Spaccapietra
and Steffen Staab and
Rudi Studer and Olga De Troyer},
title={ Emergent
Semantics Systems},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the first International IFIP Conference on
Semantics of a Networked World (ICSNW 2004)},
year={ 2004},
month={ June},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Paris,
France},
pages={ 14-44},
volume={ 3226},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540-236090},
ee={ http://www.springerlink.com/content/w56el009j4jtl4px/},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#ACC04}
}
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Peter Spyns, Sven Van Acker, Marleen Wynants,
Mustafa Jarrar, and Andriy Lisovoy: Using a novel ORM-based
ontology modelling method to build an experimental
Innovation Router. Proceedings of 14th
International Conference on Engineering Knowledge in
the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW 2004). Pages
(82-98), LNCS 3257, Springer. ISBN: 3540233407.
October 2004.
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@inproceedings{ SAWJL04,
author={ Peter Spyns and Sven Van Acker and
Marleen Wynants
and Mustafa Jarrar AndriyLisovoy},
title={ Using a novel
ORM-based ontology modelling method to build an
experimental Innovation Router},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of 14th International Conference on Engineering
Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW
2004)},
year={ 2003},
month={ October},
pages={ 82-98},
publisher={ Springer},
volume={ 3257},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540233407},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#SAWJL04}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Aldo Gangemi (eds): Proceedings of the 2nd
International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies
(WORM 2004). On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops.
Pages(568). LNCS 3292, Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus.
ISBN: 3540236643. November 2004.
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@inproceedings{ JG04,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Aldo Gangemi},
title={ Proceedings of
the 2nd International Workshop on Regulatory
Ontologies (WORM 2004)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM
2004 Workshops},
year={ 2003},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Larnaca,
Cyprus},
pages={ 568},
volume={ 3292},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540236643},
ee={ https://springerlink.metapress.com/content/1df292hlh6ufad17/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JG04}
}
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Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero, Gonzalo
Méndez, Lawrence Cavedon, David Martin,
Annika Hinze, George Buchanan, María S.
Pérez, Víctor Robles, Jan Humble,
Antonia Albani, Jan L. G. Dietz, Hervé
Panetto, Monica Scannapieco, Terry A. Halpin, Peter
Spyns, Johannes Maria Zaha, Esteban Zimányi,
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Tharam S. Dillon, Ling Feng,
Mustafa Jarrar, Jos Lehmann, Aldo de Moor, Erik
Duval, Lora Aroyo: (eds): On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. .
LNCS 3762, Springer. Larnaca, Cyprus. ISBN:
3540297391. November 2005.
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@proceedings{ MTP05,
editor={ Robert Meersman,
Zahir Tari, Pilar Herrero, Gonzalo
Méndez, Lawrence Cavedon, David Martin,
Annika Hinze, George Buchanan, María S.
Pérez, Víctor Robles, Jan Humble,
Antonia Albani, Jan L. G. Dietz, Hervé
Panetto, Monica Scannapieco, Terry A. Halpin,
Peter Spyns, Johannes Maria Zaha, Esteban
Zimányi, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Tharam S.
Dillon, Ling Feng, Mustafa Jarrar, Jos Lehmann,
Aldo de Moor, Erik Duval, Lora Aroyo },
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM
2005 Workshops},
year={ 2005},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Larnaca,
Cyprus},
volume={ 3762},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540297391},
ee={ },
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#MTP05}
}
2003
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Mustafa Jarrar, Jan Demey, and Robert Meersman: On Using Conceptual Data
Modeling for Ontology Engineering. Journal on
Data Semantics, Special issue on "Best papers from
the ER/ODBASE/COOPIS 2002 Conferences". Pages
(185-207). LNCS 2800. No 1. Springer. ISBN:
3540204075. October 2003.
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Abstract. This paper tackles
two main disparities between conceptual data
schemes and ontologies, which should be taken
into account when (re)using conceptual data
modeling techniques for building ontologies.
Firstly, conceptual schemes are intended to be
used during design phases and not at the
run-time of applications, while ontologies are
typically used and accessed at run-time. To
handle this first difference, we define a
conceptual markup language (ORM-ML) that allows
to represent ORM conceptual diagrams in an open,
textual syntax, so that ORM schemes can be
shared, exchanged, and processed at the run-time
of autonomous applications. Secondly, unlike
ontologies that are supposed to hold
application-independent domain knowledge,
conceptual schemes were developed only for the
use of an enterprise application(s), i.e.
"in-house" usage. Hence, we present an ontology
engineering-framework that enables reusing
conceptual modeling approaches in modeling and
representing ontologies. In this approach we
prevent application-specific knowledge to enter
or to be mixed with domain knowledge. To end, we
present DogmaModeler: an ontology-engineering
tool that implements the ideas presented in the
paper.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA, DogmaModeler, ORM, ORM-ML.
close
@article{ JDM03,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Jan Demey and Robert Meersman},
title={ On Using
Conceptual Data Modeling for Ontology
Engineering},
journal={ Journal on
Data Semantics (Special issue on Best
papers from the ER/ODBASE/COOPIS 2002
Conferences.)},
pages={ 185-207},
series={ LNCS},
volume={ 2800},
number={ 1},
publisher={ Springer},
year={ 2003},
month={ October},
isbn={ 3540204075},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JDM03},
isbn={ 10.1007/978-3-540-39733-5_8},
}
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Mustafa Jarrar, Ruben Verlinden, and Robert
Meersman: Ontology-based Customer
Complaint Management. OTM 2003 Workshops,
proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on
Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint
Regulations. Pages (594-606). LNCS 2889, Springer.
Sicily, Italy. ISBN: 3540204946. November 2003.
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Abstract. This paper presents
an ontology-based approach for managing and
maintaining multilingual online customer
complaints. To achieve trust and transparency in
e-commerce communications and transactions,
effective and cross-border complaint platforms
need to be established and may be integrated in
e-business activities. The effectiveness and
width of such complaint service platforms depend
on rising to several challenges, such as the
sensitivity of business regulations and
complaint resolution, the language and cultural
diversity of the cross-border business parties,
the extensibility according to the market needs
and standards. In this paper, we show how such
challenges can be addressed and simplified:
first, we propose the construction of an
ontology that captures the core knowledge of the
customer complaint domain. Second, we show how
the extensibility of a complaint platform can be
simplified and managed. Finally, we show how a
multilingual representation of this ontology may
be constructed.
This paper outlines our main achievements in
Topic Panel 6 ("Ontology, Extensibility and
Integration"), which is a special interest group
in the EU CCFORM Thematic Network project.
Keywords: Customer Complaint
Management, CRM, e-CRM, Ontology, Core
Ontology, Customer Complaint Ontology, DOGMA,
ORM, Multilingual Representation of Ontologies.
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@inproceedings{ JVM03,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Ruben Verlinden
and Robert Meersman},
title={ Ontology-based
Customer Complaint Management},
booktitle={ OTM
2003 Workshops, proceedings of the 1st
International Workshop on RegulatoryOntologies
and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations},
year={ 2003},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Sicily,
Italy},
pages={ 594-606},
volume={ 2889},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540204946},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JVM03},
ee={ https://springerlink.metapress.com/content/u3ylm4ebmk49pqhj/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Anne Salaun (eds): proceedings of the 1st
International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies
and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations (WORM
CoRe 2003). On the Move to Meaningful Internet
Systems: OTM 2003 Workshops. Pages (578), LNCS 2889,
Springer. Sicily, Italy. ISBN: 3540204946. November
2003.
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@inproceedings{ JS03,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Anne Salaun},
title={ Proceedings of
the 1st international Workshop on Regulatory
ontologies and the modeling of complaint
regulations (WORM CoRe 2003)},
booktitle={ On the
Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM
2003 Workshops},
pages={ 578},
year={ 2003},
month={ November},
publisher={ Springer},
location={ Sicily,
Italy,}
volume={ 2889},
series={ LNCS},
isbn={ 3540204946},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JS03},
ee={ https://springerlink.metapress.com/content/mutgyw8nh2qw7kdn/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Formal Ontology Engineering
in the DOGMA Approach. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Ontologies, Databases,
and Applications of Semantics (ODBase 2002). Pages
(1238-1254). LNCS 2519, Springer. ISBN:3540001069.
October 2002.
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Abstract. This paper presents
a specifically database-inspired approach
(called DOGMA) for engineering formal
ontologies, implemented as shared resources
used to express agreed formal semantics for a
real world domain. Our methodology aims to
addresses several related issues, such as (a)
the scalability of building and sharing
ontologies; (b) the maximization of knowledge
reusability; (c) the design and engineering
process, that also simplifies building and
managing ontologies; (d) the coexistence of
several rule systems and ontology languages
around a same ontology; and (e) the reconcile
of the need to represent semantics
independently from language with the need to
create and use processes entirely rooted and
described in (natural) language. We first
define formal ontologies in a logic sense,
i.e. as ''representationless'' mathematical
objects that form the range of a classical
interpretation mapping from a first order
language (sometimes called a conceptual
schema, and assumed to lexically represent an
application), to a set of possible
(''plausible'') conceptualizations of the real
world domain. We then give a database-inspired
''view'' on implementations of ontologies seen
as resources. Following common model-theoretic
database practice we decompose such resources
into ontology bases and into of their explicit
so-called ontological commitments. Such
architecture allows to make the latter
(crucial) notion explicit as a separate layer,
with concrete and dedicated services,
mediating between the ontology base and the
application instances that commit to the
ontology. We claim it also leads to
methodological approaches that naturally
extend database modeling theory and practice,
and so may in turn lead to scalable solutions
for ontology-based systems. We discuss
examples of the DOGMA implementation of the
ontology base server and commitment server.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA
close
@inproceedings{ JM02a,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman},
title={ Formal
Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the International Conference on Ontologies,
Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBase
2002)},
year={ 2002},
month={ October},
publisher={ Springer Verlag
},
pages={ 1238-1254},
volume={ 2519},
ee={ http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2519/25191238.htm},
series={ LNCS
},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JM02a},
isbn={ 3540001069}
}
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Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, and Mustafa Jarrar: Data modelling versus
Ontology engineering. The SIGMOD Record
Magazine. Pages (12-17) Volume 31, no 4. ACM, ISSN:
01635808. March 2002.
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Abstract. Unlike data models,
the main fundamental asset of ontologies is
the independency from a particular
application's needs, i.e. relatively generic
domain knowledge that can be used and reused
among different kinds of applications. The
first main topic of this paper is to discuss
some independency aspects that help to
understand the differences and similarities
between ontologies and data models. The second
main topic of this paper is to present an
ontology engineering framework that increases
the independency between an ontology and
applications that use it. Our ontology
engineering approach separates ''atomic''
conceptual relations and ''predicative''
domain rules. An ontology, defined in this
way, consists of an ontology base that holds
intuitive context-specific conceptual
relations and a layer of ''relatively
generic'' ontological commitments that hold
the ontology rules. The latter may be seen as
reusable knowledge components.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA.
close
@article{ SMJ02,
author={ Peter Spyns and Robert Meersman
and Mustafa Jarrar},
title={ Data Modelling
versus Ontology Engineering},
journal={ SIGMOD
Record},
volume={ 31},
year={ 2002},
pages={ 12-17},
month={ March
},
number={ 1},
publisher={ ACM Press issn={ 01635808},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#SMJ02},
url={ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/637411.637413}
}
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Jan Demey and Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: A Conceptual Markup Language
that supports interoperability between Business
Rule modeling systems. Proceedings of the
Tenth International Conference on Cooperative
Information Systems (CoopIS 02). Pages (19-35). LNCS
2519, Springer. ISBN: 3540001069. October 2002.
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Abstract. The Internet
creates a strong demand for standardized
exchange not only of data itself but
especially of data semantics, as this same
internet increasingly becomes the carrier of
e-business activity (e.g. using web services).
One way to achieve this is in the form of
communicating ''rich'' conceptual schemas.
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER,
ORM and to some extent the UML have been
developed in the past for building information
systems. These techniques or suitable
extensions can often also be used to design
business applications at a conceptual level.
In this paper we adopt the well-known CM
technique of ORM, which has a rich complement
of business rule specification, and develop
ORM-ML, an XML-based markup language for ORM.
Clearly domain modeling of this kind will be
closely related to work on so-called
ontologies and we will briefly discuss the
analogies and differences, introducing
methodological patterns for designing
distributed business models. Since ORM schemas
are typically saved as graphical files, we
designed a textual representation as a
marked-up document in ORM-ML so we can save
these ORM schemas in a more machine
exchangeable way that suits networked
environments. Moreover, we can now write style
sheets to convert such schemas into another
syntax, e.g. pseudo natural language, a given
rule engine's language, first order logic, a
given rule engine's language. We give (in
appendix) a complete formal definition
(''grammar'') of ORM-ML as an XML Schema, a
comprehensive description of all of ORM's
business rules in ORM-ML syntax and present an
algorithm to map ORM schemas into ORM-ML. We
illustrate the concept on a number of examples.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA
close
@inproceedings{ DJM02a,
author={ Jan Demey and Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman},
title={ A Conceptual
Markup Language That Supports Interoperability
between Business Rule Modeling Systems},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the 10th International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2002)},
year={ 2002},
month={ October
},
publisher={ Springer },
pages={ 19-35},
volume={ 2519},
ee={ http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2519/25190019.htm},
series={ LNCS},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#DJM02a},
isbn={ 3540001069}
}
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Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Scalability and Knowledge
Reusability in Ontology Modeling. In Veljko
Milutinovic (eds): Proceedings of the International
conference on Infrastructure for e-Business,
e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine (SSGRR
2002s). Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli. Rome,
Italy. August 2002.
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Abstract. The purpose thesis
of this paper is to present and discuss the
scalability and reusability capabilities of
DOGMA, an ontology modeling approach.
Ontologies are repositories of domain
knowledge and essential for knowledge
management in organizations and for achieving
interoperation among information systems. In
the DOGMA ontology server architecture, we
implement ontologies as classical database
resources separating the ''fact base'' from
the constraints, rules, derivations etc. that
commit an application to such a given ontology
''base''. This separation allows an increased
degree of scalability and reusability for the
activities of ontology building. These are key
issues in the context of the so-called
Semantic Web where very large numbers of
partial ontologies will emerge.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA
close
@inproceedings{ JM02b,
author={ Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman},
title={ Scalability
and Knowledge Reusability in Ontology Modeling},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the International conference on
Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education,
e-Science, and e-Medicine (SSGRR 2002s)},
year={ 2002},
month={ August},
publisher={ Scuola Superiore G
Reiss Romoli},
location={ Rome,
Italy},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#JM02b}
}
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Jan Demey, Mustafa Jarrar, and Robert Meersman: A Markup Language for ORM
Business Rules. Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for
Business Rules on the Semantic Web (RuleML 2002).
Pages(107-128). Volume 60. CEUR Workshop
Proceedings. ISSN 1613-0073. June 2002.
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Abstract.{ Conceptual modeling
techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent
the UML have been developed in the past for
building information systems. These techniques
or suitable extensions can often also be used
to design business rules at a conceptual
level. In particular in this paper we adopt
the well-known CM technique of ORM, which has
a rich complement of business rule
specification, and develop ORM -ML, an
XML-based markup language for ORM. Clearly
domain modeling of this kind will be closely
related to work on so-called ontologies and we
will briefly discuss the analogies and
differences. Since ORM schemas are typically
saved as graphical files, we designed a
textual representation as a marked-up document
in ORM-ML so we can save these ORM schemas in
a more machine exchangeable way over the
Internet. Moreover, we can now write style
sheets to convert such schemas into another
syntax, e.g. pseudo natural language, first
order logic, a given rule engine's language,
etc. We give (in appendix) a complete formal
definition (''grammar'') of ORM-ML as an XML
Schema, a comprehensive description of all of
ORM's business rules in ORM-ML syntax and
present an algorithm to map ORM schema's into
ORM-ML. We illustrate the concept on a number
of examples.
Keywords: {Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA
close
@inproceedings{{ DJM02b,
author={ Jan Demey and Mustafa Jarrar and
Robert Meersman},
title={ A Markup
Language for ORM Business Rules},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the International Workshop on Rule Markup
Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web
(RuleML 2002)},
year={ 2002},
month={ June},
publisher={ CEUR Workshop
Proceedings},
pages={ 107-128},
volume={ 60},
issn={ 1613-0073},
ee={ http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-60/jarrar.pdf},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#DJM02b},
}
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Peter Spyns, Daniel Oberle, Raphael Volz, Jijuan
Zheng, Mustafa Jarrar, York Sure, Rudi Studer, and
Robert Meersman: OntoWeb- a Semantic Web
Community Portal. Proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Practical Aspects of
Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002). Pages (189-200).
LNCS 2569, Springer. ISBN: 3540003142. December
2002.
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Abstract.This paper describes
a semantic portal through which knowledge can
be gathered, stored, secured and accessed by
members of a certain community. In particular,
this portal takes into account companies and
research institutes participating in the E. U.
funded thematic network called OntoWeb.
Ontology-based annotation of information is a
prerequisite in order to offer the possibility
of knowledge retrieval and extraction. The
usage of well-defined semantics allows for the
knowledge exchange between different OntoWeb
community members. Thus, members are able to
publish annotated information on the web,
which is then crawled by a syndicator and
stored in the portal's knowledge base. The
backbone of the portal architecture consists
of a knowledge base in which the ontology and
the instances are stored and maintained. In
addition, ontology-boosted query mechanisms
and presentation facilities are provided.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA.
close
@inproceedings{ SOV02,
author={ Peter Spyns and Daniel Oberle and
Raphael Volz and Jijuan Zheng and Mustafa Jarrar and
York Sure and Rudi Studer and Robert Meersman},
title={ OntoWeb - A
Semantic Web Community Portal},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the 4th International Conference on Practical
Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002)},
year={ 2002},
month={ December},
publisher= Springer },
pages={ 189-200},
volume={ 2569},
series={ LNCS},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#SOV02},
isbn={ 3540003142}
}
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Jan De Bo, Mustafa Jarrar, Ben Majer, and Robert
Meersman: Ontology-based author
profiling of documents. Proceedings of the
Workshop Event Modeling for Multilingual Document
Linking (LREC 2002). ELRA, pages: 23-28. Gran
Canaria. 2002.
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Abstract. In this paper we
present the advantages of using an ontology
service for the modelling of user profiles in
the EC FP5 IST project NAMIC (IST-1999-12392).
By means of an ontology server people set up
user profiles, which are in fact views, i.e.
specifications of queries on the ontology.
These views are constructed using a JAVA API,
which forms the commitment layer of the
ontology, built on top of an ontology base. In
NAMIC an ontology server is used to establish
a link between the lexical object
representations, generated by the natural
language processors (NLP) on the one hand and
the user's interest, specified through the
selection of relevant concepts and facts of
the ontology on the other. This allows to
specify a user profile independently of
language, categorization and NLP specific
world models. Users then set up a profile
consisting of events, agents participating in
these events and other content information in
which they are interested in. For instance, a
journalist writing articles about financial
issues may be interested in related documents
containing a ''raise event'' of company
shares. If he has specified those conditions
in his profile he will be able to retrieve
resources which contain events that are
semantically related to that kind of event
pattern. User profiles in NAMIC do not have to
be static. The results of processing by the
NLPs of a document the user is currently
working on, may be used to construct a dynamic
profile, which may contain events specific for
that document. This way a user's profile can
be dynamically adapted to his current
interests. We also developed a tool which
illustrates the creation of user profiles
using ontological concepts and facts.
Keywords: Ontology, Conceptual
data modeling, Context, Ontology tools,
Reusability, DOGMA
close
@inproceedings{ DJMM02,
author={ Jan De Bo and Mustafa Jarrar and
Ben Majer and Robert Meersman},
title={ Ontology-based
author profiling of documents},
booktitle={ Proceedings
of the Workshop Event Modeling for Multilingual
Document Linking (LREC 2002)},
year={ 2002},
publisher={ ELRA},
location={ Gran
Canaria},
pages={ 23-28},
url={ http://www.jarrar.info/publications/#DJMM02}
}
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