Enterprise reference lexicon building from business models

• Author(s): Andrade, Pedro Ricardo Contradanças de
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14256
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Fact models; Information systems; Interoperability; Knowledge representation
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Gonçalves, Ricardo; Sarraipa, João
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

Nowadays, a significant increase on the demand for interoperable systems for exchanging data in business collaborative environments has been noticed. Consequently, cooperation agreements between each of the involved enterprises have been brought to light. However, due to the fact that even in a same community or domain, there is a big variety of knowledge representation not semantically coincident, which embodies the existence of interoperability problems in the enterprises information systems that need to be addressed. Moreover, in relation to this, most organizations face other problems about their information systems, as: 1) domain knowledge not being easily accessible by all the stakeholders (even intra-enterprise); 2) domain knowledge not being represented in a standard format; 3) and even if it is available in a standard format, it is not supported by semantic annotations or described using a common and understandable lexicon. This dissertation proposes an approach for the establishment of an enterprise reference lexicon from business models. It addresses the automation in the information models mapping for the reference lexicon construction. It aggregates a formal and conceptual representation of the business domain, with a clear definition of the used lexicon to facilitate an overall understanding by all the involved stakeholders, including non-IT personnel.