Ontologies for Better Project Planning

Authors

  • Abdelaziz Bouras QATAR Chair Professor at Qatar University Qatar
  • Aboubakr Aqle Qatar University Qatar
  • Anwar Alsardy Qatar University Qatar
  • Radwan Nizam Qatar University Qatar

Keywords:

Ontology, Project Planning, RDF, SPARQL, Protégé

Abstract

Providing accurate estimation during project planning is crucial to meet the time lines of the project, however, with all the emphasis we put when estimating the activities in a project, we still have difficulties in predicting realistic estimation for some activities, especially the activities that have never experienced before. The problem here is that there are hidden variables that are difficult to anticipate, and sometimes cost a lot of time to fix them. Many techniques are available to help project managers successfully providing realistic estimation, one of these techniques advices to maintain the historical data for the work, during the planning process, if details of the same activities are available, then it will help the project manager to think about all variables related to an activity. Ontology has the potential to play an important role in classifying, storing and querying information. In this paper we suggest a solution that uses ontologies to maintain the historical data for the work, and it allows sharing the data between multiple firms.

Author Biographies

  • Abdelaziz Bouras, QATAR Chair Professor at Qatar University Qatar

    Abdelaziz Bouras is ictQATAR Chair Professor at Qatar University, QU. He is currently the Chair of the IFIP WG5.1 on « Global Product development for the whole life-cycle". His current research interests focus on distributed systems for lifecycle engineering, including ontologies and lifecycle modeling for intelligent products. He teaches Software Project Management and Simulation in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of QU. Also was professor at the University of Lyon (France) where he leads a research team of the LIESP laboratory. He has been recently conferred the HONORIS-CAUSA honorary Doctoral Degree in Science of the Chiang Mai University (Thailand) from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. His current research interests focus on industrial engineering and information systems and methodologies including open standards for product information and knowledge exchange, reference models for product lifecycle and supply chain integration, and multi-agent simulation. He guided more than 20 PhD students in these fields, some of them were co-advised in partnership with international institutions under co-tutelle agreements (with EU, Africa and Asia). He is also regularly invited for PhD dissertation committees in Europe, Africa and Asia. Prof. Bouras is also leading the CERRAL Innovation Center of the Lumière IUT Technology Institute, a unique public center in France dedicated to innovation in cooperative education. This center has led to the participation in several EU-Asian exchange projects, such the SQUARE project on the implementation of QMS Quality Management Systems in Thai universities and the deployment of Cooperative Teaching in the north of Thailand in collaboration with Japanese and EU companies. From 1993 to 2000, he coordinated a Master diploma at the Université Claude Bernard of Lyon in the CAD/CAM fields and developed strong relationship with many European companies. He also managed the French-Swiss student exchange within the bilateral Master in Multimedia and is currently representing the Knowledge & Decision Making Research Master at the Université Lumière of Lyon. He teaches enterprise information systems and product development, both for undergraduate and graduate levels in Lyon and gives study seminars in France and abroad. Prof. Bouras is Editor-In-Chief and founder of the International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Associate-Editor and co-founder of the International Journal of Product Development (IJPD), and Editorial Board Member of several International Journals related to knowledge management and supply chain management. He is also co-founder of the new International Federation of Information Processing IFIP WG5.1 Group on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for which he acts as Vice-Chair in charge of Europe and Africa; and is member of the IFIP WG 5.7 Group on Integration in Production Management. He is also the co- founder of the international WG-PLM and its annual international doctoral workshop on PLM. He is currently leading or collaborating on various French and European Projects (French/Greek Platoon, IMS NoE SIG PLM, Ancar-PLM, ISPRI PLM, PEGASE etc) and International Projects (Erasmus-Mundus Sustainable E-Tourism, Euro-Asia Asia-Link, Erasmus-Mundus eLink, Euro-Thai Ethics-Fed, Euro-Thai Square, Franco-Thai PHC e-Tourism, NIST Manufacturing Interoperability etc). He acts as President or Member of several Steering Committees of international events every year, such as the International IFIP PLM conferences series (Bangalore’06, Milano’07, Seoul’08, Bath’09, Brehmen’10, Eindhoven’11...), the International IEEE SKIMA conferences (ChiangMai’06, Kathmandu’08, Fez’09, Paro’10, Benevento’11...) and other European events related to Lifecycle Management and Supply Chain Management. He is (or was) part of the program committee of more than 50 International Conferences in these fields and was regularly invited as Guest-Speaker. Professor Bouras is currently Expert for the evaluation of the European FEDER Competence Centers Program and Expert for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on educational projects in North- Africa. He also serves as Expert for European and American Research Agencies (Canadian NSERC and FNRT, French ANR, European Commission, Greek Ministry of Education...). He has published more than 100 papers in different areas and was a visiting researcher in different universities and institutes in USA (NIST), China (Fudan and SJTU Shanghai), India (IISc Bangalore), Nepal (Kathmandu), Mexico (Pachuca), Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Morocco (Fès), and Thailand (Chiang Mai). HONORIS-CAUSA honorary doctoral degree in Science (ChiangMai university) IJPLM International Journal (founder, editor-in-chef) IJPD International Journal (co-founder, associate editor) IJIEI International Journal (sc. board member) IJEBM International Journal (sc. board member) IJASM International Journal (sc. board member) Ing. Numériq. Collab. Journal (sc. board member) EU European Commission Programs (expert) French Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (expert) (FR) ANR COSINUS program (evaluation committee) (FR) ANR CONTINT progrm (expert) (FR) ANR Programme Blanc (expert) (FR) AERES Research Units (expert) (CA) NSERC research agency (expert) (CA) FNRT research agency (expert) (GR) Ministry of Education (expert) PLM International Conference (co-founder, steering committee) IEEE SKIMA International Conference (co-founder, steer. committee) LIESP laboratory (Lyon 2 team leader + council member) Lyon Infomaths Doctoral School (council member) CERRAL Innovation Centre (Director) CoDe Research Master (representative at Lyon 2) Erasmus-Mundus Elink (french coordinator) Erasmus-Mundus “E- Tourism” (coordinator) Asia-Link “East-West” (french coordinator) Interministry PEGAS Serious Games project (leader at Lyon 2) Rhône-Alps ISPRI-PLM project (leader) EU-Thai SQUARE project (French leader) EU-Thai ETHICS project (French expert) Franco-Thai E-Tourism project (French leader) (NP) Kantipur Engineering College - Kathmandu (Adjunct Professor) (TH) CAMT/CMU (Adjunct Professor) (USA) National Institute of Standards and Technology (Guest Researcher)

  • Aboubakr Aqle, Qatar University Qatar

    Aboubakr Aqle is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Qatar University. He completed his Bachelor degree of Computer Science from Qatar University at 2002. He has more than 14 years’ experience in IT business applications and solution architecture. Currently he is preparing his master in Mobile App, Internet Computing and Analytics.

  • Anwar Alsardy, Qatar University Qatar

    Anwar Alsardy is a web developer at the Advisory Council since 2003. He has more than 15 years' experience in Analysis, design, development and implementation of software applications in Client/Server environment and in multi-threaded server environment. Alsardy is currently pursuing his master’s degree in the field of computing at the Computer Science and Engineering department of Qatar University, while working on projects related to web development.

  • Radwan Nizam, Qatar University Qatar

    Radwan Nizam is a software architect with more than 12 years of experience in system design, system integration and implementation. Radwan had an associated degree in Computer Engineering from University of Damascus at 2000, and also had a Bachelor in Business Information Technology from University of Greenwich at 2013. Currently he is preparing his Master in Computing at the Computer Science and Engineering department of Qatar University.

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Published

2022-05-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2016): The Journal of Modern Project Management

Section

Articles-JMPM

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Ontologies for Better Project Planning. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 3(3), 163. https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/212

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