Doctoral Seminar: Mostafa Erfani

Speaker: Mostafa Erfani

Supervisor: Dr. J. Rilling

Examining Committee: Drs. G. Butler, F. Khendek, R. Witte

Title: Towards an Ontology-Based Context-Aware Meta-Model for Software Domain

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2015

Time: 10:15 a.m.

Place: EV 3.309

ABSTRACT

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in the enabling technologies for ubiquitous and ambient computing. Common to these systems is that they integrate contextual information to improve situated cognition and awareness as well as stakeholders’ usage experience with these systems. While domains such as the next generation of the web - Web 3.0, which shares many commonalities with the software domain, have made context-awareness as part of their solution space, the software domain still lacks the same rate of adoption. In this research, I introduce an ontology based context-aware meta-model that takes advantage of Semantic Web technologies to capture and formalize different context abstraction levels. I also discuss the applicability of proposed context modeling approach for various software applications, including mentor recommendation, bug triage, code search and result ranking. The results in software application