Monthly Archives: March 2009

Collibra on Business Engineering

By Stijn Christiaens | March 28, 2009

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 pervasive impedance mismatch between Business and IT

By Pieter De Leenheer | March 11, 2009

As been said and written: ontology evolution/engineering can learn many things from its much older brother of software evolution/engineering. We substantiate this by making a comprehensive literature study on ontology evolution, and look where techniques and principles from software evolution could fit in.
Apart from the similarities, there are also divergent assumptions that must be taken [...]

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Principles of ICT Democracy: can communities themselves build their ontologies ?

By Pieter De Leenheer | March 9, 2009

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 [...]

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See the forest through the tree

By Stijn Christiaens | March 6, 2009

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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