This blog post is the first of a series of cases. It demonstrates how business semantics management can help in overcoming some basic semantic conflicts.
The situation
The situation is as follows: a supplier of cardboard boxes sends a delivery to his customer. Next to the actual delivery, they exchange information on the contents of the truck, [...]
Introduction
Reflecting back on the SemTech conference, I must always think of the lessons I learned at STARLab from my promotor Prof. Meersman. I learned about semantics from the perspective of conceptual modeling, with of course extra courses on logic.
I found the conference a great success and I learned a lot about new technologies. However I [...]
A couple of weeks before we left for San Jose, Pieter went through the final step of his PhD: the actual defense. His jury was quite impressive: Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman, Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers, Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick, Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Van Bendegem, Prof. Dr. Hans Weigand, Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp and Prof. Dr. [...]
Today Pieter and myself got a nutshell overview of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) at the Departement of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI). CERIF has been set up in the early nineties, and has been under the official management (i.e. as authorized by the European Commission) of the euroCRIS organization.
The aim of CERIF [...]
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I recently came across a great cartoon that can best be described by seeing it. It is about formatting standards, evolution and the difference between syntax and semantics. I am happy to have received confirmation from the author to reproduce the work here. Please visit Maurice Lawles’ site for more of these.
The cartoon depicts the [...]
I just stumbled upon an easy to understand introduction to the idea of the Semantic Web. In about 6 minutes, Manu Sporny explains the viewer about the difference between syntax and semantics, how this works on computers and the web, how the current web works at the level of syntax, and how the semantic web [...]
Last Thursday Pieter and myself visited the first conference of the Business Engineering Community. Business Engineering is a discipline which aims at the integral development of substantially automated business services, including human involvement and participation, in agreement with and driven by the business needs.
The audience consisted of 30 to 40 professionals (requirements engineers, business architects, [...]
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The second-generation Web (2.0) is a complex socio-technical system of unforeseen growth and dynamics. On-line communities emerge and interact all around a usually self-organising manner supported by interactive applications, including bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and wikis, being developed and shared at little or no cost. The emerging range of Semantic Web and other open technologies promises [...]
Inference is seen as a major asset of semantic technology: add facts according to the right classes and properties, and out come the inferred facts. Much of this reasoning is based on so-called syllogisms, on which Aristoteles is frequently quoted:
All men are mortal, Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
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Of course, in order to achieve [...]
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