ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud

Project monitoring plays a crucial role in project management, which is a part of every stage of a project’s life-cycle. Nevertheless, along with the increasing ratio of outsourcing in many companies’ strategic plans, project monitoring has been challenged by geographically dispersed project teams a...

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Main Authors: Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer-Verlag, Graz University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40692
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Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Chang, Elizabeth
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description Project monitoring plays a crucial role in project management, which is a part of every stage of a project’s life-cycle. Nevertheless, along with the increasing ratio of outsourcing in many companies’ strategic plans, project monitoring has been challenged by geographically dispersed project teams and culturally diverse team members. Furthermore, because of the lack of a uniform standard, data exchange between various project monitoring software becomes an impossible mission. These factors together lead to the issue of ambiguity in project monitoring processes. Ontology is a form of knowledge representation with the purpose of disambiguation. Consequently, in this paper, we propose the framework of an ontology-based real-time project monitoring system (ORPSM), in order to, by means of ontologies, solve the ambiguity issue in project monitoring processes caused by multiple factors. The framework incorporates a series of ontologies for knowledge capture, storage, sharing and term disambiguation in project monitoring processes, and a series of metrics for assisting management of project organizations to better monitor projects. We propose to configure the ORPMS framework in a cloud environment, aiming at providing the project monitoring service to geographically distributed and dynamic project members with great flexibility, scalability and security. A case study is conducted on a prototype of the ORPMS in order to evaluate the framework.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-406922017-09-13T16:05:29Z ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud Dong, Hai Hussain, Farookh Khadeer Chang, Elizabeth Product Quality Evaluation Ontology Project Progress Assessment Project Management Project Monitoring Project monitoring plays a crucial role in project management, which is a part of every stage of a project’s life-cycle. Nevertheless, along with the increasing ratio of outsourcing in many companies’ strategic plans, project monitoring has been challenged by geographically dispersed project teams and culturally diverse team members. Furthermore, because of the lack of a uniform standard, data exchange between various project monitoring software becomes an impossible mission. These factors together lead to the issue of ambiguity in project monitoring processes. Ontology is a form of knowledge representation with the purpose of disambiguation. Consequently, in this paper, we propose the framework of an ontology-based real-time project monitoring system (ORPSM), in order to, by means of ontologies, solve the ambiguity issue in project monitoring processes caused by multiple factors. The framework incorporates a series of ontologies for knowledge capture, storage, sharing and term disambiguation in project monitoring processes, and a series of metrics for assisting management of project organizations to better monitor projects. We propose to configure the ORPMS framework in a cloud environment, aiming at providing the project monitoring service to geographically distributed and dynamic project members with great flexibility, scalability and security. A case study is conducted on a prototype of the ORPMS in order to evaluate the framework. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40692 10.3217/jucs-017-08-1161 Springer-Verlag, Graz University fulltext
spellingShingle Product Quality Evaluation
Ontology
Project Progress Assessment
Project Management
Project Monitoring
Dong, Hai
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Chang, Elizabeth
ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_full ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_fullStr ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_full_unstemmed ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_short ORPMS: An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_sort orpms: an ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
topic Product Quality Evaluation
Ontology
Project Progress Assessment
Project Management
Project Monitoring
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40692