An Ontology-Based Semantic Foundation for Organizational Structure Modeling in the ARIS Method

Author

Santos, Paulo Sergio ; Almeida, João Paulo A ; Guizzardi, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo (UFES), Vitoria, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

282

Abstract

This paper focuses on the issue of ontological interpretation for the ARIS organization modeling language with the following contributions: (i) providing real-world semantics to the primitives of the language by using the UFO foundational ontology as a semantic domain, (ii) the identification of inappropriate elements of the language, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach, and (iii) recommendations for improvements of the language to resolve the issues identified.

Keywords

ontologies (artificial intelligence); organisational aspects; simulation languages; ARIS organization modeling language; UFO foundational ontology; ontology-based semantic foundation; organizational structure modeling; semantic domain; systematic ontology-based analysis approach; Analytical models; Humans; Marketing and sales; Ontologies; Organizations; Semantics; Unified modeling language; ARIS; UFO (Unified Foundation Ontology); ontological interpretation; organizational structure; semantics for enterprise models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vitoria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7965-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOCW.2010.58

Filename

5629060