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separate document, nine Appendices are attached containing relevant descriptive information
about the activities carried out during this second year.
In accordance with the above pattern, Chapter 1 discusses in detail the activities performed in this
period corresponding to tasks T10.3.2, T10.3.3, T10.4.2 and T10.4.3. It includes a higher-level
vision of the structure, functionalities and recommendation mechanisms offered by the SDE. This
chapter includes the sections below:
• SDE API (Section 1.1): This section includes a description of the interface offered to the
Composer by the SDE to extend its functionality with Technical Localization and Resource
Planning services. It offers a general overview of the interface, avoiding technical details,
as its main objective is to serve as an introduction to the SDE API. To obtain further
information on the API technical documentation, please refer to Appendix III of this
document.
• Recommendation Algorithms (Section 1.2): This section discusses the main
recommendation techniques implemented in the first operational version of the SDE. A
rationale on the recommendation factors considered by the inference engine is also
included, pointing out the influence of each of these factors on the final recommendations
on resources provided by the SDE.
• SDE Implementation Details (Section 1.3): This section provides a description of the main
components configuring the technical architecture of the SDE, including a description of the
technologies used to implement it.
The second chapter, Ontology Maintenance & Evaluation, discusses in detail the activities
performed during this period corresponding to tasks T10.1.4 and T10.2.4. It describes the revision
of the ontology developed during the first year together with the evaluation and validation of the
models generated. This chapter is organized according to the sections below:
• Evaluation and Maintenance of Semantic Models (Section 2.1): This section includes a
review of the main techniques and methodologies found in the literature to manage the
evaluation and the life cycle of the semantic models.
• Ontology Evaluation (Section 2.2): This section describes the tasks performed to evaluate
the correctness and completeness of the models proposed. More specifically, this section
describes activities related to verification (making sure that definitions correctly implement
the requirements of the ontology), validation (checking that the ontology definitions actually
model the real world for which they were created) and assessment (evaluation of the
ontology content from the viewpoint of the user). Details on the verification process are
presented in Appendix VII.
• Ontology Maintenance/Updates (Section 2.3): This section introduces the most relevant
updates performed on the semantic model due to the updating of the functional
requirements of the project. Details on the maintenance tasks and ontology update are
included in the Annexes document (cf. Appendix II and Appendix IX).
Chapter 3 collects the bibliography referenced in the course of this document.
Finally, an Annexes document gathers comprehensive documentation on all activities performed
by WP10 during the second year of the project:
• Appendix I: List of Abbreviations. A comprehensive list of all the abbreviations used in
this deliverable.
• Appendix II: Control Boards. Conclusions from these iterations are briefly presented in
this appendix and included in Sections 1.2 and 2.2.2.
• Appendix III: Full Specification of the SDE API. Detailed description of all the methods,
parameters and functionality provided by the set of methods available through the SDE
API.
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