Dear Paola,
Enjoy reading your excellent article: Ontology: Making
the Business Case,
http://www.cutter.com/bia.html. A long
while could not read such a quality
review about ontology and its
engineering applications. Among other things, i like your bringing up Mealy's
position on the role of ontology (made in 1967!) that in data pocessing there
are three main aspects:
the real world itself;
ideas about the world;
symbols on some storage media.
Outstanding achievement. Thanks a lot.
wish new successes,
Azamat
PS: contents
information ket to intelligence;
what is ontology (boundaries, defining ontology);
the business case for ontology (business, ontology, and transformation;
data mining; transaction processing; costing; evaluation) ;
ontology lifecycle and artifacts (management phase; implementation
phase);
ontology engineering and methodologies (ontology matching; ontology
versus other representation models; ontology defintion metamodel and
model-driven engineering);
ontology and the organization (semantic and concepual consistency within
the organization; possible ontologies, open worlds, and collaboration;
collaborative and modular ontologies; consensus
building )