TOWARDS A DATA INTEGRATION APPROACH BASED ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS AND DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES

Fernanda Baião, Flavia Santoro, Hadeliane Iendrike, Claudia Cappelli, Mauro Lopes, Vanessa T. Nunes, Ana Paula Dumont

2008

Abstract

Information integration is still a challenge in the Information Systems research area. Domain ontologies are intensively studied to solve this problem, since they allow people and software agents to share common agreement about information and semantics on a specific domain of knowledge. However, for this integration to be carried out effectively, the ontology should be kept up-to-date according to concept definitions and current business rules. This may be very difficult to achieve in dynamic organizations. In this paper we present an approach for developing domain ontologies from business process models, thus helping in building integrated data models.

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Baião F., Santoro F., Iendrike H., Cappelli C., Lopes M., T. Nunes V. and Paula Dumont A. (2008). TOWARDS A DATA INTEGRATION APPROACH BASED ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS AND DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 338-342. DOI: 10.5220/0001714303380342


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Fernanda Baião and Flavia Santoro and Hadeliane Iendrike and Claudia Cappelli and Mauro Lopes and Vanessa T. Nunes and Ana Paula Dumont},
title={TOWARDS A DATA INTEGRATION APPROACH BASED ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS AND DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={338-342},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001714303380342},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS A DATA INTEGRATION APPROACH BASED ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS AND DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Baião F.
AU - Santoro F.
AU - Iendrike H.
AU - Cappelli C.
AU - Lopes M.
AU - T. Nunes V.
AU - Paula Dumont A.
PY - 2008
SP - 338
EP - 342
DO - 10.5220/0001714303380342