Colleagues,
The
time has come for us to finalize our plans for the 2011
Ontology Summit. The organizing committee has identified a
base theme for the summit, and we would now like to invite
you to participate in a conference call on December 16th to
brainstorm on refining and finalizing this theme. Developing
details (including dial-in information) are available on the
session page at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_12_16
Overall theme:
Making the case for Ontology
This summit will
collect and curate a small number of perspectives and case
studies for which we will strive to assemble ROI information
(monetary and otherwise) as well as statements of the
problem and solution approach, in support of providing solid
material to draw upon when making the business case for both
the application as well as the R&D investment in
Ontology.
Subthemes –
Groups of participants making the case in the following
domains:
•
Healthcare informatics and Biomedical
•
Cyberphysical systems
• Cloud
(massively parallel) computing
•
Traditional engineering applications (civil, mechanical,
aerospace…)
•
Software engineering, knowledge engineering
•
Enterprise and system architecture
•
Government applications
•
<please suggest any more you feel have some good
examples>
While the
original premise was for making the case in a
return-on-investment basis, the suggestion has been made
that this question could also be framed in terms of making
the case:
• For
research investment
• For
using an ontological approach compared to other technical
approaches (i.e. on its technical, rather than business,
merits)
• To
the general public, to increase awareness and understanding
• From
a business perspective (the original suggestion)
Possible metrics
include:
• Value
in terms of productivity, value added, and other benefits
•
Financial ROI
•
Technical quality
• Risk
Thanks in advance
for your interest and involvement. I think we have a
promising topic.
- On
behalf of the Ontology Summit Organizing Committee
Steven R.
Ray, Ph.D.
Distinguished
Research Fellow
Carnegie
Mellon University
NASA
Research Park
Building 23
(MS 23-11)
P.O. Box 1
Moffett Field, CA 94305-0001
Email:
steve.r.ray@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (650)
587-3780
Cell:
(202) 316-6481