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Project Applies Semantic Grid to Satellites, Car Insurance |
Monday, June 23, 2008 Spanish researchers have participated in a European Project, called OntoGrid, which has been applied to both the analysis of satellite mission quality and to prevent European motorists from swindling car insurers. These are just two of a long list of other possible applications in the business world. In the final project review, concluded in August 2007, experts from a number of European organizations agreed that the project had achieved outstanding scientific and technological results, as well as having a big impact on technological and user communities.The OntoGrid Project was coordinated by the Ontology Engineering Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s School of Computing (FIUPM) and led by Asunción Gómez. The project’s technical coordinator was Professor Carole Goble from the University of Manchester, and the Spanish researcher Oscar Corcho, now based at the FIUPM. Other project partners were the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), as well as several Spanish and Dutch companies. The results of this project are now being applied to the development of other projects like ADMIRE. ADMIRE kicked off in March 2008, with the aim of applying part of the research conducted in OntoGrid to the field of river flood simulation. SemsorGrid4Env, another project, which is to start up in September 2008, is to exploit part of the OntoGrid research applied to the field of forest fire forecasting. According to Oscar Corcho, the project’s software architect, the semantic grid has countless applications, related not only to problems requiring a lot of computing power, but especially to issues where there is a huge volume of data that can be explicitly and clearly described and used for decision making. Satellites and insurance companies OntoGrid emulated the actual satellite quality analysis implementation, which it applied in a report generation platform related to the satellite mission. The system can easily gather information for the user from satellite data through new analyses and visualization tools. This system saves a lot of message classification time. Another application using OntoGrid was to provide high added value services for European-based international car insurance companies. The insurance application is called CarRepairGrid and is based on an imaginary company, Damage Secure, which is responsible for controlling all the aspects of car insurance damage claims across a group of insurance companies. The success of the undertaking would depend on increasing quality and efficiency of the claim submission processes between the consumer, the damage repair company and the insurance company. If the CarRepairGrid program could work without human intervention, it would save many millions of euros. Source : http://gridtoday.com/ |