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ONTOLOGIES A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems INTEGRATED SERIES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Series Editors Professor Ramesh Sharda Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß Oklahoma State University Universität Hamburg Other published titles in the series: E-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Integration of Web Technologies with Business Models/ edited by Michael J. Shaw VIRTUAL CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES: A Matrix of Knowledge and Learning for the New Digital Dawn/Walter R.J. Baets & Gert Van der Linden SCALABLE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS: An Introduction to Recent Advances/ edited by Vittal Prabhu, Soundar Kumara, Manjunath Kamath LEGAL PROGRAMMING: Legal Compliance for RFID and Software Agent Ecosystems in Retail Processes and Beyond/ Brian Subirana and Malcolm Bain LOGICAL DATA MODELING: What It Is and How To Do It/ Alan Chmura and J. Mark Heumann DESIGNING AND EVALUATING E-MANAGEMENT DECISION TOOLS: The Integration of Decision and Negotiation Models into Internet-Multimedia Technologies/ Giampiero E.G. Beroggi INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION/ Thorsten Blecker et al MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine/edited by Hsinchun Chen et al KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING: Extending the Horizons of Knowledge-Based Management/ edited by Walter Baets INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: Information Sharing and Data Mining/ Hsinchun Chen ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION: On-Demand Information Exchange for Extended Enterprises/ David Levermore & Cheng Hsu SEMANTIC WEB AND EDUCATION/ Vladan Devedžić INFORMATION SYSTEMS ACTION RESEARCH: An Applied View of Emerging Concepts and Methods/ Ned Kock ONTOLOGIES A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems edited by Raj Sharman Rajiv Kishore Ram Ramesh Raj Sharman Rajiv Kishore Ram Ramesh SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo New York, USA New York, USA New York, USA Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930394 ISBN-10: 0-387-37019-6 (HB) ISBN-10: 0-387-37022-6 (e-book) ISBN-13: 978-0387-37019-4 (HB) ISBN-13: 978-0387-37022-4 (e-book) Printed on acid-free paper. ©2007 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if the are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Dedicated to To my wife Janie, my children Kristi, Kristin and Krissie and my parents T.S. and Sushila Visvanathan – Raj Sharman To Sujata, Anant, and Aseem for your love, support, inspiration, and patience – Rajiv Kishore To the countless individuals who have helped, guided and shaped my life and continue to do so – Ram Ramesh CONTENTS Foreword xi Foundations of ODIS 1. The Road Toward Ontologies 3 Diana Marcela Sánchez, José María Cavero and Esperanza Marcos Martínez 2. Use of Ontologies for Organizational Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems 21 Vasudeva Varma 3. Ontological Evaluation of Business Models: Comparing Traditional and Component-Based Paradigms in Information Systems Re-Engineering 49 Raul Valverde and Mark Toleman 4. Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey 79 Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Zhongli Ding and Sasikanth Avancha 5. Positivism or Non-Positivism – Tertium Non Datur 115 Bernd Carsten Stahl 6. Ontology, Life-World, and Responsibility in IS 143 Bernd Carsten Stahl Ontological Engineering 7. An Ontological Approach to Develop Knowledge Intensive CBR Systems 173 Belén Díaz-Agudo and Pedro A. González-Calero viii 8. MDA Standards for Ontology Development 215 Dragan Djurić, Dragan Gašević and Vladan Devedžić 9. Ontology Specification and Integration for Multimedia Applications 265 Hiranmay Ghosh, Santanu Chaudhury, Karthik Kashyap and Brindaduti Maiti 10. Ontology Revision 297 Seung Hwan Kang and Sim Kim Lau 11. Modeling and Reasoning About Changes in Ontology Time Series 319 Tomi Kauppinen and Eero Hyvönen 12. Machine Learning-Based Maintenance of Domain-Specific Application Ontologies 339 Alexandros G. Valarakos, George Vouros and Constantine Spyropoulos 13. MnM: Semi-Automatic Ontology Population from Text 373 Maria Vargas-Vera, Emanuela Moreale, Arthur Stutt, Enrico Motta and Fabio Ciravegna 14. An Ontological Approach to Requirements Elicitation Technique Selection 403 Ann M. Hickey and Alan M. Davis ODIS Architectures 15. Use of Ontology for Automating Knowledge Intensive Business Processes 435 Jyoti M. Bhat, Krishnakumar Pooloth, Manohar Moorthy, Renuka Sindhgatta and Srinivas Thonse 16. Using Ontologies to Create Object Model for Object-Oriented Software Engineering 461 Dencho N. Batanov and Waralak Vongdoiwang 17. An Ontology-Based Exploration of Knowledge Systems for Metaphor 489 Chu-Ren Huang, Siaw-Fong Chung and Kathleen Ahrens 18. The Knowledge Collective Framework Makes Ontology Based Information Accessible, Maintainable, and Reusable 519 Jay A. Yusko and Martha W. Evens ix 19. Information Systems Aspects and the Ontology of Hypermedia Systems 545 Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Elena García-Barriocanal and Salvador Sánchez-Alonso 20. Ontology-Enabled Database Management Systems 563 N.L. Sarda 21. Enhancing Interoperability and Web Services Standards Through Ontological Analysis 585 Peter Green, Michael Rosemann and Marta Indulska 22. Context-Aware Ontology Selection Framework 607 Simone A. Ludwig and S.M.S. Reyhani 23. Ontology-Based User Modeling 635 Liana Razmerita 24. Ontology-Based User Profiles for Personalized Search 665 Susan Gauch, Mirco Speretta and Alexander Pretschner ODIS Applications 25. Ontology-Driven Information System for Supply Chain Management 697 Charu Chandra and Armen Tumanyan 26. Framework for Enhanced Interoperability 727 Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves, João P.M.A. Silva, António A.C. Monteiro and Adolfo Steiger-Garção 27. Foundations for a Core Ontology of Manufacturing 751 Stefano Borgo and Paulo Leitão 28. Engineering a Development Platform for Ontology-Enhanced Knowledge Applications 777 Gary H. Merrill 29. Inductive Design and Testing of a Performance Ontology for Mobile Emergency Medical Services 823 Thomas Horan, Ugur Kaplancali, Richard Burkhard and Benjamin Schooley 30. Development of an Ontology-Based Smart Card System Reference Architecture 841 István Mezgár and Zoltán Kincses x 31. Using Ontologies in Mobile Surveyor 865 Xin Zheng and Delbert Hart 32. The News Ontology for Professional Journalism Applications 887 Norberto Fernández-García, Luis Sánchez-Fernández, José M. Blázquez-del-Toro and Jesús Villamor-Lugo Index 923 Foreword Ontology, or the nature of being, has been a focal area of study in the philosophical disciplines for a long time. Interpreted simply, the term ontology refers to the question “what kinds of things exist?” to a philosopher, while a computer scientist grapples with the question “what kinds of things should we capture and represent?” Together, research on the two questions yield a broad framework for the analysis of a discourse universe, its representation in some abstract form and the development of organizations and systems within the universe. The philosophical perspective on ontology provides a description of the essential properties and relations of all beings in the universe, while this notion has been expanded as well as specialized in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. The AI/CS communities now use this notion to refer to not one but multiple ontologies. In the AI/CS perspective, an ontology refers to the specification of knowledge about entities, and their relationships and interactions in a bounded universe of discourse only. As a result, a number of bounded-universe ontologies have been created over the last decade. These include the Chemicals ontology in the chemistry area, the TOVE and Enterprise ontologies for enterprise modeling, the REA ontology in the accounting area, organizational knowledge ontology in the knowledge management area, an ontology of air campaign planning in the defense area, and the GALEN ontology in the medical informatics area. Of late, however, there is a growing recognition that ontological principles and concepts need not be restricted to the traditional domains of knowledge inquiry, and can be fruitfully applied to and developed further in various fields within the broader information systems area. This has led to the notion of ontology-driven information systems (ODIS), a concept that, although in preliminary stages of development, opens up new ways of

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