In some application domains as composite software, ranging from search engines, to more general applications, like cooperative and distributed applications or e-business and e-comm...
Abstract. Ontologies are shared conceptualizations of a certain domain. As such domains may change, also changes in the ontologies have to be considered, as otherwise there is no w...
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...
Feature models are commonly used to describe software product lines in terms of features. Features are linked by relations, which may introduce errors in the model. This paper give...
Pablo Trinidad, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cort...
Abstract. Systems interact with their environment (e.g., other systems) by exchanging messages in a particular order. Interoperability problems arise when systems do not understand...
To create an understanding of enterprises and the ways they do business, a starting point could be to identify the main actors and the values transferred between them. Business mod...
Birger Andersson, Maria Bergholtz, Ananda Edirisur...
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
Abstract. Though ontologies are widely used to solve some specific interoperability problems, there is no specific ontology defining what interoperability actually is, independentl...
Yannick Naudet, Thibaud Latour, Kevin Hausmann, Sv...