BIS record '2007/1/439'

BibTeX

@inproceedings{BIS:2007/1/439,
  author        = {Frederik Gailly and
                   Geert Poels},
  title         = {Towards Ontology-driven Information Systems: Redesign and Formalization of the REA Ontology},
  year          = {2007},
  session       = {Ontologies},
  pages         = {246--260},
  crossref      = {BIS:2007/1},
  bibsource     = {BIS, http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/biblio/},
  abstract      = {It is widely recognized that ontologies can be used to support the semantic integration and interoperability of heterogeneous information systems. Resource Event Agent (REA) is a well-known business ontology that was proposed for ontology-driven enterprise system development. However, the current specification is neither sufficiently explicit nor formal, and thus difficult to operationalize for use in ontology-driven business information systems. In this paper REA is redesigned and formalized following a methodology based on the reengineering extension of the METHONTOLOGY framework for ontology development. The redesign is focused on developing a UML representation of REA that improves upon existing representations and that can easily be transformed into a formal representation. The formal representation of REA is developed in OWL. The paper discusses the choices made in redesigning REA and in transforming REA’s UML representation into a OWL representation. Keywords: Business Ontologies, Interoperability, Ontology Engineering, UML, OWL}
}

  
@proceedings{BIS:2007/1,
  editor        = {Witold Abramowicz},
  booktitle     = {Business Information Systems, 10th International Conference, BIS 2007, Poznań, Poland, April 2007},
  title         = {Business Information Systems, 10th International Conference, BIS 2007, Poznań, Poland, April 2007},
  publisher     = {Springer-Verlag},
  isbn          = {978-3-540-72034-8},
  year          = {2007},
  bibsource     = {BIS, http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/biblio/}
}