A service-oriented framework for controlling invasive species in agriculture. (2nd June 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Medjahed, Brahim; Hadi, Shamil; Grosky, William I.
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 4:Number 1/2(2009)
• Page Start: 34
• Page End: 41
• Publication Date: 2009-06-02
• Subjects: invasive species -- agriculture -- EAB -- emerald ash borer -- SOA -- service-oriented architecture -- ontology -- notification -- ash trees -- information sharing -- information dissemination; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has killed or infested millions of ash trees in the USA. It has the potential to decimate ash trees as a component of North American forests, which will have dramatic ecological and economic effects. Government agencies have joined forces to implement a long-term programme to contain and eventually eradicate the borer. One key requirement for the success of this programme is the underlying information-sharing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based service-oriented framework, called Sentinel, to automate the dissemination of EAB-related information. We also present experiment results to assess the performance of our framework.