The ONTORULE project will be presented at the SemTech within a half-conference session. The venue is located in San Francisco on June 5-9, 2011. Find below the presentation title and plan as it has been published.

The ONTORULE project: where ontology meets business rules

Brief Description

This session presents demonstrations from two industry use cases to illustrate the benefits of integrating semantic technologies along the whole chain, from knowledge acquisition to knowledge management to business application.

Long Description/Abstract

The ONTORULE project was initiated by a consortium of leading vendors of semantic technologies and business rules management systems, of top research institutions and of large industrial companies representing the user's side, to develop the integrated methodology and implementation technology that will enable users, from business executives over business analysts to IT developers, to interact in their own way with the part of a business application that is relevant to them.
We believe that one essential step towards achieving that objective is the ability to separate cleanly the representation of the knowledge at the business, operational and execution levels, on the one hand; and the business vocabulary from the business rules, on the other hand.

In this session, we will describe our results after two years of the project. Based on demonstrations from a steel industry and an automotive industry use cases, the session will cover:

• The ONTORULE approach to business user's empowerment through semantic technologies;
• The technology that is integrated in an ONTORULE platform, and how it is integrated using open standards: from business modelling and from ontology and rule acquisition from policy texts, to knowledge management, consistency maintenance across ontologies and rules, knowledge integration and combined execution;
• The benefits from the approach, and the typical use cases.

At the end of the project, the ONTORULE consortium will publish the specification of the integrated platform.