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CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ontology of Enterprise Competencies
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...
M. Harzallah
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Information Modeling and Higher-order Types
: 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...
Terry A. Halpin
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Step Towards Context Insensitive Quality Control for Ontology Building Methodologies
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 ...
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adding Trust to Ontology Based Peer-to-Peer Networks
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...
Axel Hahn, Sven Abels
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Ontologically Well-Founded Profile for UML Conceptual Models
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) ...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Nicola Guarino, ...
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling
: 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...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Primacy of Process Architecture
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 ...
Stewart Green, Martyn A. Ould
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Transformations in Information Supply
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...
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Moda-ML: Building a Collaborative Sectoral Framework based on ebXML
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,...
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Secure Databases: An Analysis of Clark-Wilson Model in a Database Environment
Abstract. Information systems are vulnerable to accidental or malicious attacks. Security models for commercial computer systems exist, but information systems security is often ig...
Xiaocheng Ge, Fiona Polack, Régine Laleau