Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction

Peter Rittgen (University College Borås, Sweden)

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781599046600

EISBN13: 9781599046624

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-660-0

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Ontologies form an indispensable basis for modeling and engineering languages for business enterprise and information systems: fostering a need for the integration of structural and behavioral aspects in domain-oriented ontologies.

The Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction documents high-quality research addressing ontological issues that are relevant to the modeling of enterprises and information systems in general and business processes in particular covering both static and dynamic aspects of structural concepts. This authoritative handbook provides crucial reference content to researchers, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of language design, information systems, enterprise modeling, domain engineering, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agent-oriented enterprise model
Aristotelian ontologies
Business partner management
Demands of mobile users
ICT Management
Information system support for supply chain management
Knowledge management support of enterprise distributed systems
Language and algorithms for ontology merging
Model-driven business transformations
Ontology design
Organizational Memory
Organizational theories integration
OWL modeling
Partner selection in business interaction
Secure socio-technical systems
Semantic business process models
Semantic technologies
Socio-instrumental pragmatism

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In the Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction there is a strong focus on domain issues; but, domain issues also have considerable impact on the design of a foundational ontology, therefore there is also a section devoted to ontological foundations.

– Peter Rittgen, University College Borås, Sweden

The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of language design, information systems, enterprise modeling, domain engineering, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web.

– Book News Inc. (2008)

Peter Rittgen received an MSc in computer science and computational linguistics from University Koblenz-Landau (Germany) and a PhD in economics and business administration from Frankfurt University (Germany). He is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Business and Informatics of the University College of Borås (Sweden). He has been doing research on business processes and the development of information systems since 1997, and has published many articles in these areas.

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