Alan Dix > 2007

Task-centered Information Management

Tiziana Catarci1, Alan Dix2, Akrivi Katifori3, Giorgos Lepouras3,4, Antonella Poggi1

1Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
2Computing Department,
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

   

3Department of Informatics & Telecommunications,
University of Athens, Athens, Hellas (Greece)
4Dept. of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Hellas (Greece)

Paper at DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, 13-14 February 2007, Tirrenia, Pisa, ITALY.

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Abstract

The goal of DELOS Task 4.8 Task-centered Information Management is to provide the user with a Task-centered Information Management system (TIM), which automates user�s most frequent activities, by exploiting the collection of personal documents considered as a Digital Library. In previous work we have explored the issue of managing personal data by enriching them with semantics according to a Personal Ontology, i.e. a user-tailored description of her domain of interest. Moreover, we have proposed a task specification language and a top-down approach to task inference, where the user specifies main aspects of the tasks using forms of declarative scripting. Recently, we have addresses new challenging issues related to TIM personalization and user�s task inference. More precisely, the first main contribution of this paper is the design of a profiling ontology for the user, that can be used to semi-automatically populate the Personal Ontology. The second contribution is the investigation of task inference theoretical issues. In particular, we show how the use of the Personal Ontology helps for computing simple task inference. The third contribution is an architecture for the system that implements simple task inference. In the current phase we are implementing a prototype for TIM whose architecture is the one presented in this paper.

keywords: Personal Information Management, Ontology Management, Task Management 

Full reference:
T. Catarci, A. Dix, A. Katifori, G. Lepouras and A. Poggi (2007). Task-Centered Information Management. In DELOS Conference 2007 on Working Notes, 13-14 February 2007, Tirrenia, Pisa (Italy), C. Thanos and F. Borri (eds.). pp. 253-263..
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