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Formalizing the OPAL eBusiness ontology design patterns with OWL

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Enterprise Interoperability II

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Domain ontology building is one of the most critical activities required in Semantic Web applications. The task must be performed by domain experts, who do not (generally) have the background of a knowledge engineer. To ease this task, Ontology Management Systems (such as Kaon, Protégé, OntoEdit, Athos) are developing user friendly interfaces. However the problem is mainly of a cognitive nature. Difficulties comes from the fact that the existing ontology languages: (i) are hard to be used by unskilled people, (ii) have very basic constructs (e.g., class, property), (iii) are not domain specific, i.e., they are conceived for very diverse contexts (e.g., from medical sector to high energy physics). OPAL (Object, Process, Actor modelling Language) aims at supporting business experts who need to build an ontology by providing a limited number of high level conceptual templates.

This work has been partially supported by the European FP6-IST Project Athena, contract number: 507849

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  1. LEKS - Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI - CNR, Rome, Italy

    F. D’Antonio, M. Missikoff & F. Taglino

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  1. UNINOVA, New University of Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Ricardo J. Gonçalves PhD

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller (Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Inform.) (Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Inform.)

  3. Fraunhofer IPK, Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Kai Mertins (Dr.-Ing.) (Dr.-Ing.)

  4. CIMOSA Association e.V. at WZL Forum/ADITEC, Steinbachstr. 23, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Martin Zelm (Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Phys.) (Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Phys.)

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D’Antonio, F., Missikoff, M., Taglino, F. (2007). Formalizing the OPAL eBusiness ontology design patterns with OWL. In: Gonçalves, R.J., Müller, J.P., Mertins, K., Zelm, M. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability II. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-858-6_38

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