by Michael Uschold | Jul 27, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology
Faced with the challenges of UML and other modeling notations, we developed our own Visio-based ontology authoring tool. We’ve been building large enterprise ontologies for our clients using the W3C web ontology language OWL. If you’re not familiar with...
by Dave McComb | Jul 15, 2010 | Software Architecture
In many organizations, ROI is a euphemism for quick fix or short term payout projects. I’ve come across a couple of articles recently on either the difficulty or the impossibility of constructing a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis on enterprise architecture...
by Dave McComb | Jun 12, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
The Seven Faces of Dr. “Class”: Part 1 “Class” is a heavily overloaded term in computer science. Many technologies have implemented the concept slightly differently. In this paper we look at the sum total of concepts that might be implemented under the banner of...
by Dave McComb | Oct 25, 2008 | Semantics and Ontology
Orginally published in October 2008 The following paper was given as a keynote address at the 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held in Saarbrücken, Germany in October 2008. Title: Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present...
by Dave McComb | Oct 1, 2008 | Semantics and Ontology
Links to two interviews with Dave regarding business semantics. Click here for an interview involving semantics, ontologies, and modeling. Click here for the transcript of an inteview, “Why is Business Semantics such a Hot Topic?”
by Dave McComb | Oct 31, 2007 | Semantics and Ontology
I’m weighing in in favor of Web 3.0 as an alias for the Semantic Web. I’m weighing in in favor of Web 3.0 as an alias for the Semantic Web. I know there are a lot of people who will roll their eyes and initiate some anti hype exorcism, but let’s have...
by Dave McComb | Jan 1, 2006 | Semantics and Ontology
Semantic technology can be a ‘lingua franca’ to connect disparate information silos. Several speakers and writers have referred to the problem of systems integration as being one of getting systems written in different languages to communicate. Whenever...
by Dave McComb | Nov 15, 2004 | Software Architecture
An Enterprise Application Architecture is the coordinating paradigm through which an organization’s IT assets inter-relate to form the computing infrastructure and support the business goals. The choice of architecture impacts a range of issues including the...
by Dave McComb | Oct 1, 2003 | Software Architecture
Role-based security is a means of implementing an authorization mechanism which has the potential to substantially reduce administrative cost and reduce vulnerability. Enterprise Role-based security addresses the problem of maintaining authorizations within large IT...
