]> 2012_04_18_1 An example: http://code.google.com/p/decision-ontology/wiki/DecisionOntologyExample Author: Piotr Nowara (piotrnowara(at)gmail.com) Decision Ontology website: http://code.google.com/p/decision-ontology/ Requirement Ontology website: https://requirement-ontology.googlecode.com/ SUMMARY: 1. Decision-making is initiated by some underlying problem that can be represented in form of a question. 2. Decision-making is a process that can result in some decision and decision is a situation of indicating one of the considered options. Decision Ontology provides means for precise distinguishing and distinct treatment of these two aspects. 3. Option is a considered situation of choosing some specific solution. 4. Options can have associated criteria that is requirements, recommendation (or other normative entities) that should be applied to them. This is the decision ontology (v.2). Let me know if you would like to participate in developing, testing or supporting this project. If you need help in using the Decision Ontology or the imported Requirement Ontology please send an email to: piotrnowara(at)gmail.com has answer has consequence has context has result has solution includes indicates wskazuje initiates involves choosing is adressed to is answer for is consequence of is consideration of is considered during is included in is indicated by is initiated by is question for is question for confirming is question for indicating is solution for supposedly same as Renamed from 'is supposed to be identical with'. Using to indicate supposedly same individuals (like in the context of a question where someone suppose some individual has certain properties or when introducing some unverified statements). Answer Indication of something requested in a question. Context Decision Recognizing something as the right/appropriate/best possible solution to a question/problem. It can be a consequence of an objective evaluation of clearly defined criteria but also an intuition, emotion or other subjective factor. Decision making 2011-10-13 A complex process that starts with a question and may result in indication of a solution for the underlying problem. It is important to note that a decision-making is something substantially different than decision, which is an output of the process of deciding. Usually it can be represented by the following pattern: 1. Decision-making starts with a question which is an utterance of some problem 2. The decider gathers and analyzes some information 3. The decider evaluates possible options (under some criteria). 4. One of the options may get recognized as the right/appropriate/best possible solution for the initial question/problem or the decider may choose to restrain from choice. What justifies this act could be an objective evaluation of clearly defined criteria but also an intuition, emotion or other subjective factor. In most cases stages 2-3 consist of many (concurrent or sequential) actions, events, processes related to information gathering, processing, verifying etc. In some cases a decision-making can be viewed as a complex process involving many sub-decisions preceding the recognition of the initial problem solution. In our current work we have focused on the basic elements of the above pattern (the question, gathering information, considering options, choosing solution). It should be considered to what extent this ontology should support the modeling of correlated issues such as: information verification and retrieval etc. Option Opcja Option has usually some related criteria which correspond to requirements, recommendations etc. Problem Process Question A situation in which a person indicates a will for acquiring knowledge about something. Question for confirming A question containing a whole proposition, that is an utterance that could be true or false. It is answerd by confirming or denying that proposition ('yes/no question') Examples: Are you a vegetarian? Is Norway a member of UE? Question for indicating A question demanding indication of some concept, thing or its property in order to be anwsered. Examples: What's your date of birth? What is the name of the Director of the W3C? Question for indicating solution Situation