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 proje...

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Main Authors: Dong, Hai, Hussain, F., Chang, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Technische Universitaet Graz, Institut fuer Informationssysteme und Computer Medien 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61732
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author Dong, Hai
Hussain, F.
Chang, E.
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Hussain, F.
Chang, E.
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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. © J.UCS.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-617322018-02-01T05:19:22Z An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud Dong, Hai Hussain, F. Chang, E. 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. © J.UCS. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61732 Technische Universitaet Graz, Institut fuer Informationssysteme und Computer Medien restricted
spellingShingle Dong, Hai
Hussain, F.
Chang, E.
An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_full An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_fullStr An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_full_unstemmed An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_short An ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
title_sort ontology-based real-time project monitoring system in the cloud
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61732