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Chris Mcmahon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Foundations of Computational Intelligence (6) - From Faceted Classification to Knowledge Discovery of Semi-structured Text Records
Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2019Co-Authors: M. D. Giess, Chris McmahonAbstract:The maintenance and service records collected and maintained by the aerospace companies are a useful resource to the in-service engineers in providing their ongoing support of their aircrafts. Such records are typically semi-structured and contain useful information such as a description of the issue and references to correspondences and documentation generated during its resolution. The information in the database is frequently retrieved to aid resolution of newly reported issues. At present, engineers may rely on a keyword search in conjunction with a number field filters to retrieve relevant records from the database. It is believed that further values can be realised from the collection of these records for indicating recurrent and systemic issues which may not have been apparent previously. A Faceted Classification approach was implemented to enhance the retrieval and knowledge discovery from extensive aerospace in-service records. The retrieval mechanism afforded by Faceted Classification can expedite responses to urgent in-service issues as well as enable knowledge discovery that could potentially lead to root-cause findings and continuous improvement. The approach can be described as a structured text mining involving records preparation, construction of the Classification schemes and data mining.
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Facilitating design learning through Faceted Classification of in-service information
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2009Co-Authors: Yee Mey Goh, Matt Giess, Chris McmahonAbstract:The maintenance and service records collected and maintained by engineering companies are a useful resource for the ongoing support of products. Such records are typically semi-structured and contain key information such as a description of the issue and the product affected. It is suggested that further value can be realised from the collection of these records for indicating recurrent and systemic issues which may not have been apparent previously. This paper presents a Faceted Classification approach to organise the information collection that might enhance retrieval and also facilitate learning from in-service experiences. The Faceted Classification may help to expedite responses to urgent in-service issues as well as to allow for patterns and trends in the records to be analysed, either automatically using suitable data mining algorithms or by manually browsing the Classification tree. The paper describes the application of the approach to aerospace in-service records, where the potential for knowledge discovery is demonstrated.
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Describing engineering documents with Faceted approaches: Observations and reflections
Journal of Documentation, 2009Co-Authors: Peter J. Wild, Matt Giess, Chris McmahonAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the difficulty of applying Faceted Classification outside of library contexts and also to indicate that Faceted approaches are poorly expressed to non‐experts.Design/methodology/approach – The Faceted approach is being applied outside of its “home” community, with mixed results. The approach is based in part on examination of a broad base of literature and in part on results and reflections on a case study applying Faceted notions to “real world” engineering documentation.Findings – The paper comes across a number of pragmatic and theoretical issues namely: differing interpretations of the facet notion; confusion between Faceted analysis and Faceted Classification; lack of methodological guidance; the use of simplistic domains as exemplars; description verses analysis; facet recognition is unproblematic; and is the process purely top‐down or bottom‐up.Research limitations/implications – That facet analysis is not inherently associated with a particular e...
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Application of Faceted Classification in the support of manufacturing process selection
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2009Co-Authors: Matt Giess, Chris Mcmahon, Julian D Booker, Dave StewartAbstract:Engineering designers are required to consider many factors concurrently when evolving a design, one such factor being the manufacturing process by which the product will be realized. The selection of such a process involves filtering available processes according to the current design situation, and providing detailed information describing this subset of processes such that the engineer may further refine the design. The approach described in this paper allows an engineer to browse documented manufacturing process information through a Faceted Classification (FC) system. Where traditional hierarchical Classifications are notably viewpoint-dependent, an FC essentially comprises concurrent Classification schemes (facets). A designer may browse within and across any combination of facets of interest and make selections at any given level of granularity. The use of a Classification scheme provides a degree of abstraction, useful when certain process capabilities may not be directly expressible as parameters. A software environment, Waypoint, has been developed which assists in the construction and population of the Faceted scheme, supports the designer in browsing, and through which relevant documentation may be identified and retrieved. The approach is demonstrated upon process descriptions obtained from an engineering textbook, although it may be applied to any given document corpus.
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Organising and Contextualising Engineering Business Information Through the Application of Faceted Classification
Volume 2: 29th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Parts A and B, 2009Co-Authors: Matt Giess, Yuyang Zhao, Mansur Darlington, Stephen Culley, Chris McmahonAbstract:This paper discusses the construction of an organisational scheme for application within a bespoke Information Management system, intended to support the retrieval of Business Information across a large engineering company. In order to mitigate viewpoint dependency and to provide additional context to support the valuation of retrieved information, a Faceted Classification scheme was developed. This paper discusses the approach taken to this development and how the ideas of information valuation were integrated.Copyright © 2009 by ASME
Sabine Mas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Faceted Classification and Multi-Viewpoints Models: Differences and Complementarities
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI, 2013Co-Authors: Sabine Mas, Aurélien Bénel, Jean-pierre Cahier, Manuel ZackladAbstract:Because of their similarities, Faceted Classification (in Information Science) and multi-viewpoints modelling (in Knowledge Engineering) are often mistaken. This paper presents both theoretical and practical differences. Then it describes their joint use and their complementarities for content management in a large organization. La modelisation multi-points de vue telle qu’utilisee en ingenierie des connaissances est parfois confondue avec la Classification multi-facettes telle que comprise en bibliotheconomie et sciences de l’information. Cet article tente de les distinguer tant au niveau theorique que sur des exemples pratiques. Il decrit ensuite leur utilisation conjointe et leur complementarite dans la gestion de contenu d’une grande entreprise.
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Applying Faceted Classification to the Personal Organization of Electronic Records: Insights into the User Experience
Archivaria, 2011Co-Authors: Sabine Mas, Dominique Maurel, Inge AlbertsAbstract:Despite recent technological advances, most operating systems still support the organization of electronic records according to hierarchical structures or directory trees. Although seemingly intuitive, these organization methods can be limiting as records are classified in one place according to one person’s logic, thereby making it difficult for other users to relate. Furthermore, the inherent boundaries of such a structure necessitate making arbitrary decisions on the specific criteria upon which the Classification will be based (e.g., the administrative function or activity, the document type, or its subject) even though a document may have several attributes and require Classification in several classes. In this article, an original Faceted approach to support electronic records organization is proposed in order to eliminate some of these well-known constraints. Insights into the user experience are now needed to improve the theoretical models and enhance the proposed Faceted navigation interface. To that end, this paper discusses a pilot study investigating the pertinence of augmenting traditional hierarchical Classification schemes with a Faceted Classification for records organization in a decentralized, digital environment. RESUME Malgre les progres technologiques recents, la plupart des systemes d’exploitation continuent de classer les documents numeriques selon une structure hierarchique ou arborescente. Bien qu’elles puissent avoir l’air intuitives, ces methodes de classement peuvent etre limitantes puisque les documents sont classes dans un endroit donne selon la logique d’un seul individu, ce qui rend la comprehension difficile pour les autres personnes. De plus, les frontieres inherentes a ce type de structure exigent que les gens prennent des decisions arbitraires a partir des criteres specifiques sur lesquels le classement sera effectue (par exemple : la fonction ou l’activite administrative, le type de document, ou son sujet), meme si un document peut avoir plusieurs attributs et pourrait etre classe a divers endroits. Dans ce texte, les auteurs proposent une approche originale a facettes pour l’organisation des documents numeriques, dans le but d’eliminer certaines de ces contraintes bien connues. Un apercu de l’experience des utilisateurs s’avere maintenant necessaire afin d’ameliorer a la fois les modeles theoriques et l’interface de navigation a facettes propose. A cette fin, les auteurs presentent une etude pilote visant a examiner la pertinence d’ajouter aux schemas de Classification traditionnels une Classification a facettes pour le classement des documents dans un environnement numerique decentralise.
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proposition of a Faceted Classification model to support corporate information organization and digital records management
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009Co-Authors: Sabine Mas, Yves MarleauAbstract:The employees of an organization often use a personal hierarchical Classification scheme to organize digital documents that are stored on their own workstations. As this may make it hard for other employees to retrieve these documents, there is a risk that the organization will lose track of needed documentation. Furthermore, the inherent boundaries of such a hierarchical structure require making arbitrary decisions about which specific criteria the Classification will be based on (for instance, the administrative activity or the document type, although a document can have several attributes and require Classification in several classes). A Faceted Classification model to support corporate information organization is proposed. Partially based on Ranganathans facets theory, this model aims not only to standardize the organization of digital documents, but also to simplify the management of a document throughout its life cycle for both individuals and organizations, while ensuring compliance to regulatory and policy requirements.
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HICSS - Proposition of a Faceted Classification Model to Support Corporate Information Organization and Digital Records Management
2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009Co-Authors: Sabine Mas, Yves MarleauAbstract:The employees of an organization often use a personal hierarchical Classification scheme to organize digital documents that are stored on their own workstations. As this may make it hard for other employees to retrieve these documents, there is a risk that the organization will lose track of needed documentation. Furthermore, the inherent boundaries of such a hierarchical structure require making arbitrary decisions about which specific criteria the Classification will be based on (for instance, the administrative activity or the document type, although a document can have several attributes and require Classification in several classes). A Faceted Classification model to support corporate information organization is proposed. Partially based on Ranganathans facets theory, this model aims not only to standardize the organization of digital documents, but also to simplify the management of a document throughout its life cycle for both individuals and organizations, while ensuring compliance to regulatory and policy requirements.
Lídia Alvarenga - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Theory Faceted Classification (TFC) as support for making the Entity Relationship (ER) Model
Proceedings of the 11th CONTECSI International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, 2014Co-Authors: Regina Maria Da Costa Smith Maia, Lídia AlvarengaAbstract:Doctoral research which has identified strong cooperation between Ranganathan ’s Theory Faceted Classification (TCF) and Peter Chen ’s Entity Relationship Model (MER) in conceptual modeling of a knowledge domain. The study contributes to a reapprochement between the areas of Information Science and Computer Science. The research method could be seen as a qualitative and applied approach, using canonical tools and documents. The research empirical universe was composed by documents of a specific domain composed by eight (8) articles and a data specific form. Data analysis was performed based on analytic-synthetic process of domain-specific concepts, conducting content and subject analysis. Full Paper PDF: http://www.contecsi.fea.usp.br/envio/11contecsi-files/papers/884/submission/director/884-2522-1-DR.pdf
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DOI: 10.5748/9788599693100-11CONTECSI/PS-884 THEORY Faceted Classification (TFC) AS SUPPORT FOR MAKING THE MODEL ENTITY RELATIONSHIP (MER)
2014Co-Authors: Minas Gerais, Lídia AlvarengaAbstract:Doctoral research which has identified strong cooperation between Ranganathan’s Theory Faceted Classification (TCF) and Peter Chen’s Entity Relationship Model (MER) in conceptual modeling of a knowledge domain. The study contributes to a reapprochement between the areas of Information Science and Computer Science. The research method could be seen as a qualitative and applied approach, using canonical tools and documents. The research empirical universe was composed by documents of a specific domain composed by eight (8) articles and a data specific form. Data analysis was performed based on analytic-synthetic process of domain-specific concepts, conducting content and subject analysis.
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doi 10 5748 9788599693100 11contecsi ps 884 theory Faceted Classification tfc as support for making the model entity relationship mer
2014Co-Authors: Minas Gerais, Lídia AlvarengaAbstract:Doctoral research which has identified strong cooperation between Ranganathan’s Theory Faceted Classification (TCF) and Peter Chen’s Entity Relationship Model (MER) in conceptual modeling of a knowledge domain. The study contributes to a reapprochement between the areas of Information Science and Computer Science. The research method could be seen as a qualitative and applied approach, using canonical tools and documents. The research empirical universe was composed by documents of a specific domain composed by eight (8) articles and a data specific form. Data analysis was performed based on analytic-synthetic process of domain-specific concepts, conducting content and subject analysis.
Matt Giess - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Facilitating design learning through Faceted Classification of in-service information
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2009Co-Authors: Yee Mey Goh, Matt Giess, Chris McmahonAbstract:The maintenance and service records collected and maintained by engineering companies are a useful resource for the ongoing support of products. Such records are typically semi-structured and contain key information such as a description of the issue and the product affected. It is suggested that further value can be realised from the collection of these records for indicating recurrent and systemic issues which may not have been apparent previously. This paper presents a Faceted Classification approach to organise the information collection that might enhance retrieval and also facilitate learning from in-service experiences. The Faceted Classification may help to expedite responses to urgent in-service issues as well as to allow for patterns and trends in the records to be analysed, either automatically using suitable data mining algorithms or by manually browsing the Classification tree. The paper describes the application of the approach to aerospace in-service records, where the potential for knowledge discovery is demonstrated.
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Describing engineering documents with Faceted approaches: Observations and reflections
Journal of Documentation, 2009Co-Authors: Peter J. Wild, Matt Giess, Chris McmahonAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the difficulty of applying Faceted Classification outside of library contexts and also to indicate that Faceted approaches are poorly expressed to non‐experts.Design/methodology/approach – The Faceted approach is being applied outside of its “home” community, with mixed results. The approach is based in part on examination of a broad base of literature and in part on results and reflections on a case study applying Faceted notions to “real world” engineering documentation.Findings – The paper comes across a number of pragmatic and theoretical issues namely: differing interpretations of the facet notion; confusion between Faceted analysis and Faceted Classification; lack of methodological guidance; the use of simplistic domains as exemplars; description verses analysis; facet recognition is unproblematic; and is the process purely top‐down or bottom‐up.Research limitations/implications – That facet analysis is not inherently associated with a particular e...
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Application of Faceted Classification in the support of manufacturing process selection
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2009Co-Authors: Matt Giess, Chris Mcmahon, Julian D Booker, Dave StewartAbstract:Engineering designers are required to consider many factors concurrently when evolving a design, one such factor being the manufacturing process by which the product will be realized. The selection of such a process involves filtering available processes according to the current design situation, and providing detailed information describing this subset of processes such that the engineer may further refine the design. The approach described in this paper allows an engineer to browse documented manufacturing process information through a Faceted Classification (FC) system. Where traditional hierarchical Classifications are notably viewpoint-dependent, an FC essentially comprises concurrent Classification schemes (facets). A designer may browse within and across any combination of facets of interest and make selections at any given level of granularity. The use of a Classification scheme provides a degree of abstraction, useful when certain process capabilities may not be directly expressible as parameters. A software environment, Waypoint, has been developed which assists in the construction and population of the Faceted scheme, supports the designer in browsing, and through which relevant documentation may be identified and retrieved. The approach is demonstrated upon process descriptions obtained from an engineering textbook, although it may be applied to any given document corpus.
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from Faceted Classification to knowledge discovery of semi structured text records
Foundations of Computational Intelligence, 2009Co-Authors: Yee Mey Goh, Matt Giess, C A Mcmahon, Ying LiuAbstract:The maintenance and service records collected and maintained by the aerospace companies are a useful resource to the in-service engineers in providing their ongoing support of their aircrafts. Such records are typically semi-structured and contain useful information such as a description of the issue and references to correspondences and documentation generated during its resolution. The information in the database is frequently retrieved to aid resolution of newly reported issues. At present, engineers may rely on a keyword search in conjunction with a number field filters to retrieve relevant records from the database. It is believed that further values can be realised from the collection of these records for indicating recurrent and systemic issues which may not have been apparent previously. A Faceted Classification approach was implemented to enhance the retrieval and knowledge discovery from extensive aerospace in-service records. The retrieval mechanism afforded by Faceted Classification can expedite responses to urgent in-service issues as well as enable knowledge discovery that could potentially lead to root-cause findings and continuous improvement. The approach can be described as a structured text mining involving records preparation, construction of the Classification schemes and data mining.
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Organising and Contextualising Engineering Business Information Through the Application of Faceted Classification
Volume 2: 29th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Parts A and B, 2009Co-Authors: Matt Giess, Yuyang Zhao, Mansur Darlington, Stephen Culley, Chris McmahonAbstract:This paper discusses the construction of an organisational scheme for application within a bespoke Information Management system, intended to support the retrieval of Business Information across a large engineering company. In order to mitigate viewpoint dependency and to provide additional context to support the valuation of retrieved information, a Faceted Classification scheme was developed. This paper discusses the approach taken to this development and how the ideas of information valuation were integrated.Copyright © 2009 by ASME
Leslie Carr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how to reuse a Faceted Classification and put it on the semantic web
International Semantic Web Conference, 2010Co-Authors: Bene Rodriguezcastro, Hugh Glaser, Leslie CarrAbstract:There are ontology domain concepts that can be represented according to multiple alternative Classification criteria. Current ontology modeling guidelines do not explicitly consider this aspect in the representation of such concepts. To assist with this issue, we examined a domain-specific simplified model for facet analysis used in Library Science. This model produces a Faceted Classification Scheme (FCS) which accounts for the multiple alternative Classification criteria of the domain concept under scrutiny. A comparative analysis between a FCS and the Normalisation Ontology Design Pattern (ODP) indicates the existence of key similarities between the elements in the generic structure of both knowledge representation models. As a result, a mapping is identified that allows to transform a FCS into an OWL DL ontology applying the Normalisation ODP. Our contribution is illustrated with an existing FCS example in the domain of "Dishwashing Detergent" that benefits from the outcome of this study.
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International Semantic Web Conference (1) - How to reuse a Faceted Classification and put it on the semantic web
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010Co-Authors: Bene Rodriguez-castro, Hugh Glaser, Leslie CarrAbstract:There are ontology domain concepts that can be represented according to multiple alternative Classification criteria. Current ontology modeling guidelines do not explicitly consider this aspect in the representation of such concepts. To assist with this issue, we examined a domain-specific simplified model for facet analysis used in Library Science. This model produces a Faceted Classification Scheme (FCS) which accounts for the multiple alternative Classification criteria of the domain concept under scrutiny. A comparative analysis between a FCS and the Normalisation Ontology Design Pattern (ODP) indicates the existence of key similarities between the elements in the generic structure of both knowledge representation models. As a result, a mapping is identified that allows to transform a FCS into an OWL DL ontology applying the Normalisation ODP. Our contribution is illustrated with an existing FCS example in the domain of "Dishwashing Detergent" that benefits from the outcome of this study.
