An ontology of quality for enterprise modelling

Author

Kim, Henry M. ; Fox, Mark S. ; Gruninger, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1995

fDate

20-22 Apr 1995

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

116

Abstract

The TOVE Quality Ontology is the formal representation (using first-order logic) of terms, relationships, and axioms about quality which are generic beyond any specific quality domain. The assumption that quality is “conformance to requirements” is used to decompose the domain of quality into sub-domains of measurement, quality analysis, identification, and traceability. An ontological engineering methodology of posing ontological scope, stating competency questions, constructing data models and axioms, and visualization of the answering of competency questions is demonstrated with an example from the engineering of the traceability ontology

Keywords

business data processing; corporate modelling; data structures; formal logic; quality control; Quality Ontology; TOVE; data models; enterprise modelling; first-order logic; formal representation; identification; measurement; ontological engineering methodology; quality analysis; requirements; traceability; visualization; Data engineering; Data models; Data visualization; Industrial engineering; Information technology; Logic; North America; Ontologies; Quality control; Quality management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1995., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on

Conference_Location

Berkeley Springs, WV

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7019-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1995.484554

Filename

484554