Workshop Description
Three views on the business organization:
1. The view of the business analyst using a formal and validated business model
2. The view of the knowledge engineer via ontologies and rules
3. The view of the IT department via an operationalization in applications
These views can be glued with an end-to-end point solution:
1. Conceptualization and where possible acquisition of business models and their transformation into ontologies and rules.
2. Their management and maintenance
3. The transparent operationalization in IT applications
The vision at the heart of the Semantic Web is of high relevance in a business setting as well. The workshop deals with the different issues that arise in a company that wishes to have a transparent and where possible a useful and semi-automatic transfer of knowledge present in business documents expressing, e.g., policies, to an IT operationalization. Moreover, the workshop uses a holistic perspective, raising awareness for the overall picture, instead of focusing on stand-alone issues. E.g., although OWL is well-investigated it is unclear how business knowledge expressed in SBVR can be mapped to it.
Topics of interest
3. The transparent operationalization in IT applications
The vision at the heart of the Semantic Web is of high relevance in a business setting as well. The workshop deals with the different issues that arise in a company that wishes to have a transparent and where possible a useful and semi-automatic transfer of knowledge present in business documents expressing, e.g., policies, to an IT operationalization. Moreover, the workshop uses a holistic perspective, raising awareness for the overall picture, instead of focusing on stand-alone issues. E.g., although OWL is well-investigated it is unclear how business knowledge expressed in SBVR can be mapped to it.
Topics of interest
- The acquisition of ontologies and rules from unstructured text via Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.
- The development of a complete, formal and validated business model, taking all possible inputs into account (people and documents, structured and unstructured, some of which as output from an NLP phase), using the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR).
- Transformation from structured business representations, from SBVR, to RDF/OWL and/or rules.
- The management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rules, e.g., consistency maintenance and the integration of rules and ontologies (semantics, algorithms).
- Implementations of such management systems.
- Use cases and field reports.
Further readings:
1. The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee
2. The Semantic Web. Recompilation of references and definitions
3. Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)
References
The ONTORULE Project http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/buro2010
- The development of a complete, formal and validated business model, taking all possible inputs into account (people and documents, structured and unstructured, some of which as output from an NLP phase), using the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR).
- Transformation from structured business representations, from SBVR, to RDF/OWL and/or rules.
- The management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rules, e.g., consistency maintenance and the integration of rules and ontologies (semantics, algorithms).
- Implementations of such management systems.
- Use cases and field reports.
Further readings:
1. The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee
2. The Semantic Web. Recompilation of references and definitions
3. Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)
References
The ONTORULE Project http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/buro2010
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