Document Type
Theses, Masters
Rights
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Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Abstract
Data modellers working in the financial industry are expected to use both technical and business knowledge to transform data into the information required to meet regulatory reporting requirements. This dissertation explores the role that semantic models such as ontologies and concept maps can play in the acquisition of financial and regulatory concepts by data modellers. While there is widespread use of semantic models in the financial industry to specify how information is exchanged between IT systems, there is limited use of these models as knowledge repositories. The objective of this research is to evaluate the use of a semantic model based knowledge repository using a combination of interviews, model implementation and experimental evaluation. A semantic model implementation is undertaken to represent the knowledge required to understand sample banking regulatory reports. An iterative process of semantic modelling and knowledge acquisition is followed to create a representation of technical and business domain knowledge in the repository. The completed repository is made up of three concept maps hyper-linked to an ontology. An experimental evaluation of the usefulness of the repository is made by asking both expert and novice financial data modellers to answer questions that required both banking knowledge and an understating of the information in regulatory reports. The research suggests that both novice and expert data modellers found the knowledge in the ontology and concept maps to be accessible, effective and useful. The combination of model types allowing for variations in individual styles of knowledge acquisition. The research suggests that the financial trend in the financial industry for semantic models and ontologies would benefit from knowledge management and modelling techniques.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, G. (2015) Semantic Models as Knowledge Repositories for Data Modellers in the Financial Industry, Masters Dissertation, Technological University Dublin, 2015.
Publication Details
Successfully submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Technological University Dublin for the degree of M.Sc. in Computing (Information and Knowledge Management), 2015.