An ontology-based semantic foundation for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method

Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 272-282

  Santos Jr , Paulo Sérgio ^a   Almeida, João Paulo A ^a   Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ARIS; Ontological interpretation; Organizational structure; Semantics for enterprise models; UFO (Unified Foundation Ontology)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ARIS; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; MODELING LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; ONTOLOGY-BASED; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC DOMAINS; SEMANTIC FOUNDATION; UNIFIED FOUNDATION ONTOLOGIES;

INDUSTRY; SEMANTICS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79951871557     PISSN: 15417719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOCW.2010.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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