Abstract. Ontologies constitute a pertinent mean to define and to manage competencies and knowledge in companies. The powerful inference mechanisms coming with ontologies allow imp...
: While some information modeling approaches (e.g. the Relational Model, and Object-Role Modeling) are typically formalized using first-order logic, other approaches to information...
A methodology provides description of process and guidance for producing ontology that facilitates management of the enterprise engineering products. Method support in terms of det...
Sari Hakkarainen, Raimundas Matulevicius, Darijus ...
This short paper starts with an overview of existing approaches of ontology based peer-to-peer solutions. It then focuses on trust issues within ontology based peer-to-peer network...
UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) ...
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Abstract. Piecemeal development and support for organisational processes may lead to problems: first, it is difficult to know which processes should be supported, and, second, it ...
In this article, we present a model for transformation of resources in information supply. These transformations allow us to reason more flexibly about information supply, and cul...
Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Patrick van Bo...
Inter-company data interchange within a specific industrial sector is necessarily based on standard document formats, structures, and transmission protocols. In this perspective, t...
Nicola Gessa, Piero De Sabbata, Massimo Marzocchi,...
Abstract. Information systems are vulnerable to accidental or malicious attacks. Security models for commercial computer systems exist, but information systems security is often ig...