A service-oriented framework for controlling invasive species in agriculture

  • Authors:
  • Brahim Medjahed;Shamil Hadi;William I. Grosky

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA.;Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA.;Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has killed or infested millions of ash trees in the USA. It has the potential to decimate ash trees as a component of North American forests, which will have dramatic ecological and economic effects. Government agencies have joined forces to implement a long-term programme to contain and eventually eradicate the borer. One key requirement for the success of this programme is the underlying information-sharing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based service-oriented framework, called Sentinel, to automate the dissemination of EAB-related information. We also present experiment results to assess the performance of our framework.