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A Context-Based Enterprise Ontology

Mauri Leppänen

subject

Knowledge managementbusiness.industryComputer scienceOntology-based data integrationProcess ontologySuggested Upper Merged OntologyOntology (information science)computer.software_genreOntology engineeringWorld Wide WebOntology chartUpper ontologybusinessOntology alignmentcomputer

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The main purpose of an enterprise ontology is to promote the common understanding between people across enterprises, as well as to serve as a communication medium between people and applications, and between different applications. This paper outlines a top-level ontology, called the context-based enterprise ontology, which aims to advance the understanding of the nature, purposes and meanings of things in enterprises with providing basic concepts for conceiving, structuring and representing things within contexts and/or as contexts. The ontology is based on the contextual approach according to which a context involves seven domains: purpose, actor, action, object, facility, location, and time. The concepts in the ontology are defined in English and presented in meta models in a UML-based ontology engineering language.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2007-06-05
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_21