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Ontology modeling techniques are gaining a lot of focus due to the rapid technological development including the emergence of semantic web technology. The idea behind semantic Web is to create a web of data that can easily be shared, accessed and even transformed over a global scale independently of any application or domain. In order to integrate data into the Semantic Web, the associated database...
The increasing growth in popularity of Web services has made it difficult for business users to fully benefit from these services if they remain specified at the software level. The introduction of intentional services is an alternative for bridging the gap between low level, technical software-service descriptions and high level, strategic expressions of business needs for services. The current Web...
The following topics are dealt with: intelligent systems, modelling and simulation; hybrid soft computing; operations research; bioinformatics and biomedical simulation; discrete event and real time systems; image, speech and signal processing; industry, business and management; human factors, social and economics sciences; civil, mechanical, chemical, industrial, manufacturing and control engineering;...
A key goal of the Semantic Web is to shift social interaction patterns from a producer-centric paradigm to a consumer-centric one. Treating customers as the most valuable assets and making the business models work better for them are at the core of building successful consumer-centric business models. It follows that customizing business processes constitutes a major concern in the realm of a knowledge-pull-based...
Some research programs are focused on the use of web services and semantic web approach to design tools for knowledge management. These tools help to share information among business applications. We will prove in this paper the benefit to combine semantic and web services approaches to identify and annotate knowledge in a heterogeneous and distributed information landscape. We present here, a comprehensive...
One fundamental problem in services computing is how to bridge the gap between business requirements and various heterogeneous IT services. This involves eliciting business requirements and building a solution accordingly by reusing available services. While the business requirements are commonly elicited through use cases and scenarios, it is not straightforward to transform the use case model into...
Extract-Transform-Loading (ETL) tools integrate data from source side to target in building data warehouse. However data structure and semantic heterogeneity exits widely in the enterprise information systems. On the purpose of eliminate data heterogeneity so as to construct data warehouse, this paper introduces domain ontology into ETL process of finding the data sources, defining the rules of data...
Currently, the calculation of similarity in ontology mapping is unilateral and complicated, because of this, it has resulted in many issues such as the calculation of similarity are not reliable. In this study, we had got a new similarity algorithm for the concepts from different ontologies: we not only considered the influence of name, instance, attribute, and structure of the concepts in designing...
The transfer from the current power grid to the power grid of the future implicates major changes for all stakeholders participating in the smart grid. Hence, utilities have to face several novel problems in terms of service provision. In this contribution, we examine two complementary views in the overall context of smart grids. We argue for a combination of those two views, based on ontology mappings...
One of the main challenges for enterprise application integration is the semantically correct integration of systems. There are many approaches that aim to address this problem, but most of them focus mainly on technical and syntactical aspects. This paper presents an Ontology-Based Approach for Semantic Integration (OBA-SI), which uses ontologies as conceptual models for defining mappings between...
While several role-related concepts play an important role in business modeling, their definitions, relations, and use differ greatly between languages, papers, and reports. Due to this, the knowledge captured by models is not transferred correctly, and models are incomparable. In this paper, we provide a meta-model and definitions for several role-related concepts based on the practice of existing...
In this paper we describe how declarative process modeling together with ontologies can be used to build complex clinical process models. Our approach supports the definition of functional, behavioral, organizational, data and operational process perspectives, resulting in an expressive and flexible modeling language. We use constraints for representing inter-process dependencies and constraint propagation...
Automation of business transactions between trading partners is an important factor in today's global business. XML based e-Business standards are developed to provide a shared understanding on what information to share, when and how between trading partners. However these standards can only capture the syntax of the transactions and not the semantics. This paper presents an ontology for ebXML Business...
This paper presents an approach based on multi-agent system (MAS) for encapsulating the features of traditional applications also called legacy systems. We focus our interest particularly on legacy based on Comment Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology. The encapsulation main objective is to simplify the possibilities for integrating this kind of application in a service-oriented architecture...
Knowledge discovery has received more and more attention from the business community for the last few years. One of the most important and challenging problems in it is the definition of discovery process model, which are well understood, efficiency, and quality of outcome. A conceptual infrastructure for knowledge discovery process is proposed with business understanding, model selection and domain...
For IT-services providers, user satisfaction is the key for their company's success. Service providers need to understand the requirements of their users and translate them into their own business goals. Service malfunctions could have negative impact on user satisfaction, therefore to detect and resolve failures of the business process level has become a mission critical requirement for any IT-company...
Non-functional requirements are emerging as one of the most crucial factors for successful information system development in service-oriented organizations. Non-functional requirements involve not only software characteristics but also numerous organizational elements. This study proposes a conflict analysis method for non-functional requirements of information systems. This method includes ontologies,...
This paper proposes an extensible workflow modeling model based on ontology through analyzing the architecture and generic knowledge of workflow modeling component. The paper specially gives the composition principle of extensible workflow modeling model and proposes the formal description of workflow modeling ontology. At last this paper gives the composition algorithm and an example which uses this...
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organization or among multiple domains, one must be able to specify and enforce a variety of constraints such as those derived from legal regulations, Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and privacy and security policies. In...
At present, several feature meta-models have been come up with. However, they can't meet the requirements of dynamic Internet environment or software reuse. This paper proposes a feature meta-model based on ontology. In particular, it can adapt to various types of changes in the dynamic environment and can make design and implementation more convenient than traditional methods. Finally, we give out...
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