Agentcities Ontology working group.

SURVEY

Please answer the following questions by ticking the appropriate answer(s) and
return the file to: V.A.M.Tamma@csc.liv.ac.uk

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Industry or Academia? (optional)

1. Do you use ontologies in any of your projects?
  Yes
  No

2. How do you use ontologies?
  Reuse of existing ones
  Build your own ontologies

3. Do you try to reuse existing ontologies if possible?
  Yes
  No

4. What kind of knowledge do you model in ontologies?
    Domain knowledge
    Communication knowledge
    Coordination knowledge
    Other (please specify)
   
5. Do you use any methodology for building ontologies or reusing ontologies?
    Yes
    No

6. If yes, which one?
    Methontology
    Ontology 101
    Other (please specify)

7. Do you use any ontoloogy management tool?
    Yes
    No

8. If yes, which one?
    Protege 2000
    WebOde
    OilEd
    OntoEdit
    Simple text editor
    Other (please specify)

9. What is the structure of your ontologies? (Use multiple choices if needed)
    Taxonomies only, with no multiple inheritance
    Taxonomies only, with multiple inheritance
    Taxonomies of concepts, described by attributes and linked by relationships
       

10. Are your ontologies heavy weight, that is do they use axioms?
      Yes
      No
 
11. What is the average size of your ontologies?
     Number of concepts
     Number of relations
     Number of axioms

12. Do you use any inference engine to perform reasoning?
     Yes 
     No

13. If yes, which one?
      Fact
      Jess
      Prolog
      Other (please specify)

14. What language do you use to represent your ontologies?
      DAML+OIL
      OWL	
      RDF 
      XML
      Jess
      Other (please specify)

15. Do you rely on automatic translation facilities offered by ontology tools?
      Yes
      No