Goals are often used to represent stakeholder’s objectives. The intentionality inherited by a goal drives stakeholders to pursuit the fulfillment of their goals either by themse...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizz...
In this paper, we introduce a semi-automatable method aimed to find the business multidimensional concepts from an ontology representing the organization domain. With these premis...
- It is no secret that the multidisciplinary sphere of information systems has borrowed the term `ontology' from philosophy, and reinterpreted it to be more suitable for infor...
We present a novel reasoning procedure for Horn SHIQ ontologies--SHIQ ontologies that can be translated to the Horn fragment of first-order logic. In contrast to traditional reaso...
Ontologies reflect our view of what exists and developing ontologies for a given domain requires a common context. This context can be characterized explicitly by means of an uppe...
Rafael Batres, Matthew West, David Leal, David Pri...