A language for modeling enterprise contextual ontologies

To achieve inter-enterprise software interoperability, the semantics of interchanged information by using electronic business documents, has to be explicitly modeled. A common approach to model semantics is to use an ontology. However, there is an emerging approach that combines an ontology with its context definition. So, the misunderstanding can be avoided if the context is explicitly defined. The resulting structure is called contextual ontology. To process a contextual ontology at run time, it has to be expressed in a machine procesable language. Recently, some languages have appeared. But, the main disadvantage of these languages is that they are mostly based on logic formalisms to support machine reasoning. Then, for the analysis and design phase of electronic business documents, a more appropriate contextual ontology modelling language is needed. To this aim, this paper presents a language for modelling explicit and formal contextual ontologies that assists business ontology des...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: María Laura Caliusco, César Maidana, María Rosa Galli, Omar Chiotti
• Keywords: CAISE 2005, Contextual Ontologies, Contextual Ontology, Electronic Business Documents