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Ontology building and maintenance in collaborative virtual environments
Author(s) -
Missikoff Michele,
Smith Fabrizio,
Taglino Francesco
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.3440
Subject(s) - ontology , computer science , knowledge management , fragmentation (computing) , domain (mathematical analysis) , conceptual framework , engineering management , process management , business , engineering , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , operating system
Summary The role of ontologies in the enterprise world is constantly increasing, and they are proving even more necessary in distributed production realities, like in extended logistics, industrial districts, or virtual enterprises. In such realities, a common conceptual basis is necessary to compensate the fragmentation inherent in the underlying industrial models. This paper presents an end‐to‐end framework based on an open, collaborative approach for developing and maintaining business domain ontologies. The framework has been achieved within the European Project BIVEE and has been experimented in two industrial realities: the high‐tech sector of robotics and the more traditional one of furniture. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.