Evolutionary Improvement and Validation through Applications

In this chapter, some prototypical software applications are presented, which have been created by the authors’ colleagues within the research projects COGents and IMPROVE. What all prototypes have in common is that their respective implementations are based on OntoCAPE. While these prototypes are of interest in themselves, they are presented here primarily for other reasons: that is, (a) to demonstrate the practical usability and reusability of OntoCAPE, and (b) to highlight the gradual improvement of the different versions of OntoCAPE, which have been triggered by implementations in different application contexts. Therefore, the descriptions of the different prototypes are intentionally kept short; detailed accounts of these have been published elsewhere, as will be indicated by appropriate references.