This talk gives an introductory survey on Business Ontologies. The talk will address the main problems related to the construction and management of Business Ontologies and, without the intent to be exhaustive, will present the most relevant solutions that can be found in the literature, mentioning a few running prototypes. The main points addressed will be:
Ontologies, though deriving from existing disciplines, such as knowledge representation, (semantic) database design, conceptual modelling, Information System Analysis and Design, have received a new attention due to the advent of XML technology and the great expectation that is inducing in terms of business interoperability. New technologies, such as Web Services, Information Integration, and the emerging Semantic Web infrastructure, will be successful only if effective ontologies will be available.
Coordinator of LEKS, Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, at IASI-CNR (Rome, Italy), he has a long experience on knowledge representation and databases. In the last years he focussed his attention on enterprise knowledge bases and, in particular, on Business Ontologies and their impact on enterprise-wide application packages: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning, such as SAP), and on inter-enterprise cooperation (semantic interoperability). He served in the Program Committees of primary international conferences in the field and in the editorial boards of important international journals. He is the Program Committee Chair of the CAiSE’03, the international Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, that will be held in Velden next June. He is co-founder and past president of EDBT Foundation, the international organisation that promotes EDBT Conferences. He participated and leaded several international and national research projects. In his activity he produced more than one hundred and fifty papers, the half of which at international level.
Speaker: Prof. Michele Missikoff
Coordinator of LEKS, Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, at IASI-CNR (Rome, Italy)
When: Thursday, 22nd of August 2002, 10:00 (s.t)
Where: SR-E 2.69 University Klagenfurt