by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Most companies of any size have created an internal Tower of Babel that frustrates all attempts to integrate their disparate systems. Download the White-paper
by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Getting the categories and classes distinction right is one of the key drivers of the cost of traditional systems. We’ve been working with two clients lately, both of whom are using an ontology as a basis for their SOA messages as well as the design of their future...
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 | 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?”