Ontologies are used to represent human knowledge in a machine-understandable format. Knowledge exists in all domains and the proper capture and utilization of the knowledge is very important. Many ontology engineering methodologies are available for the development of ontologies. However, they suffer from their heavy weight nature and make the development process tedious. In addition, the resulting ontologies are monolithic ontologies and are not easy to reuse. Therefore, an agile and modular method is proposed to develop ontologies. The ease of use of the method is tested by a group of 68 inexperienced ontology engineers who compare it with Ontology 101 by developing ontologies in the e-Government domain using both methods.
Abstract-The hospitality industry is a flourishing backbone of the Mauritian economy and one of its pillars is the technological arm. Hospitality IT needs to adapt quickly to address and meet new challenges, increase operational flexibility and enhance overall guest experience while optimising costs on all fronts. The purpose of this study is to give a detailed analysis of the current IT infrastructure of hotels in Mauritius and to identify the major issues and challenges faced by the organisations in its management. The analysis has been carried out on premise and different stakeholders such as the functional managers, the IT support officers and end users have been interviewed for their appreciation of the actual IT infrastructure. Based on the issues and challenges faced by the different departments in their daily work routine, Cloud computing has been proposed as a viable solution to counter the challenges faced by the organizations in the management of their IT infrastructure. In this paper, the cost impact for one hotel for moving to the cloud SaaS model has been analysed. This work will extend on future works where the cost factor for different hotel categories and cloud models will be analysed.
Abstract-SMEs are facing huge competition on the market and must absolutely find means to become visible online. Cloud offers a technological platform for business management. In Mauritius, there are about 100,000 registered SMEs with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), which provides a range of assistance including information on technological innovations. Currently, the SMEDA has a cloud platform: a server hosted by a third party but is only used for its website. SMEDA's aim is to come up with a better-computerized approach to become more efficient. As per the latest budget report of Mauritius, the SMEDA has the aim of making full use of the cloud to make SMEs become visible. No research is being done currently by SMEDA in terms of cloud computing and its suitability for SMEs and the different segments. In this paper, a literature review is performed on SMEs with respect to ICT adoption and cloud computing. An overview of existing work done on cloud computing and SMEs in general is then carried out using the PEST analysis. The latter is then performed for Mauritian SMEs where a PEST framework is proposed and the results are discussed.Index Terms-Cloud framework, cloud computing and SMEs, SMEs cloud adoption.
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