Benefits of Enterprise Ontology for the Development of ICT-Based Value Networks
Series
Communications in computer and information science
ISBN
978-3-540-88655-6
Type
book section
Date Issued
2007
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Filipe, Joaquim
Shishkov, Boris
Helfert, Markus
Maciaszek, Leszek A.
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their information systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), primarily the emergence of the Internet, offer possibilities to increase the interoperability of information systems and therefore enable inter-enterprise cooperation. For the design of inter-enterprise information systems, the concept of business component appears to be very promising. However, the identification of business components is strongly dependent on the appropriateness and the quality of the underlying business domain model. The ontological model of an enterprise or an enterprise network as presented in this article, is a high-quality and very adequate business domain model. It provides all essential information that is necessary for the design of the supporting information systems, and at a level of abstraction that makes it also understandable for business people. The application of enterprise ontology for the identification of business components is clarified. To exemplify our approach, a practical case is taken from the domain of strategic supply network development. By doing this, a widespread problem of the practical application of inter-enterprise information systems is being addressed.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
No
Book title
Software and data technologies ; second international conference ICSOFT/ENASE 2007, Barcelona, Spain, July 22 - 25, 2007 ; revised selected papers
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin
Number
22
Start page
3
End page
22
Pages
20
Event Title
2nd International Conference, ICSOFT/ENAS
Event Location
Barcelona, Spain
Event Date
22-25.07.2007
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
71934
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