Communications of the ACM
A collaborative approach to ontology design
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Towards a standard upper ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
B2B Integration - Aligning ebXML and Ontology Approaches
EurAsia-ICT '02 Proceedings of the First EurAsian Conference on Information and Communication Technology
Network Structure in Virtual Organizations
Organization Science
The Knowledge Engineering Review
A Generic Library of Problem Solving Methods for Scheduling Applications
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Adding semantics to rosettaNet specifications
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Challenging the interoperability between computers in industry with MDA and SOA
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Collaborative environments for concurrent engineering
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Collaboration Engineering with ThinkLets to Pursue Sustained Success with Group Support Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking
Computers in Industry
Taxonomy alignment for interoperability between heterogeneous virtual organizations
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Ontology-based enterprise knowledge integration
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Architectures for enterprise integration and interoperability: Past, present and future
Computers in Industry
An Architecture for Collaboration Patterns in Agile Event-Driven Environments
WETICE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
Text2Onto: a framework for ontology learning and data-driven change discovery
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Towards a reference ontology for business models
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
An ECA engine for deploying heterogeneous component languages in the semantic web
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
An Ontology for Virtual Organization Breeding Environments
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Toward a business model reference for interoperability services
Computers in Industry
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Semantic interoperability is a crucial issue in industrial enterprises when they participate in virtual organisations (VOs), i.e., when they dynamically form network-based collaborative alliances of a temporary nature. Addressing semantic heterogeneities aims to ensure that the meaning of information exchanged by VOs is interpreted in the same way by all communicating parties and their systems. In this paper we examine how ontologies can be employed by a system of services for delivering interoperability to enterprises, independent of particular IT deployments. In order to support interoperability service utilities in VOs, this paper presents a top-level ontology for collaborative networked organisations (code named OCEAN). The OCEAN ontology is designed as a lightweight top-level ontology that provides a common terminological reference in terms of VOs. The paper also demonstrates the use of practical tools for achieving consensus of the shared conceptualisation of a virtual organisation (VO), among participants, while it outlines a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for supporting VO knowledge based collaborations using OCEAN. We demonstrate how that usage enables shared understanding in knowledge-intensive collaborations, as well as how it facilitates interoperability of applications that provide collaboration services, presenting concrete examples from the pharmaceutical industry.