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From the Essence of an Enterprise Towards Enterprise Ontology Patterns

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering X (EEWC 2016)

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In this paper we partially present an initial version of a Formal Enterprise Ontology Pattern Language, which has been developed to support conceptual enterprise modeling and a subsequent construction of different design and implementation artifacts. The proposed enterprise ontology patterns address problems related to the correlated modeling of both the intersubjective world and the production world of an enterprise, as well as the effective conjunction of the domain knowledge and the operational knowledge of an enterprise. The proposed language builds on a synthesis of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and the DEMO Enterprise Ontology. We also demonstrate how the pattern language was applied to the domain-specific enterprise modeling.

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    The Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) are Semantic Web languages recommended by the W3C for knowledge representation.

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Acknowledgments

The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 16-06-00300 a. This research was also partly funded by the CLASSE (“Les Corridors Logistiques: Application a la Vallee de la Seine et son Environnement”) project of the Grand Research Network of in Upper Normandy (Grand Réseaux de Recherche de Haute-Normandie). The authors would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi for his invaluable advice and inspiring discussions.

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    Tanja Poletaeva & Habib Abdulrab

  2. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Eduard Babkin

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Poletaeva, T., Abdulrab, H., Babkin, E. (2016). From the Essence of an Enterprise Towards Enterprise Ontology Patterns. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Gouveia, D. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering X. EEWC 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39567-8_8

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