Platform-as-a-Service for Human-Based Applications: Ontology-Driven Approach

Abstract

The number of crowd computing applications is rapidly growing; however, they currently lack unification and interoperability as each platform usually has its own model of tasks, resources and computation process. We aim at the development of a unifying ontology-driven platform that would support deployment of various human-based applications. Key features of the proposed human-computer cloud platform are ontologies and digital contracts. Ontological mechanisms (ability to precisely define semantics and use inference to find related terms) are employed to find and allocate human resources required by software applications. Whereas digital contracts are leveraged to achieve predictability required by cloud users (application developers). The paper describes major principles behind the platform.