I will answer this in the context of OWL ontologies where the errors are found using Hermit or Fact++ as the inference engine. I happen to use Protégé, but other ontology tools have similar functionality. There are a few cases. First, if the ontology is inconsistent, then one or more classes will be inferred to...Continue reading→

Yes. Check out http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/oops/. The authors looked through the literature and discovered 29 common pitfalls that arise when building ontologies. Code has been written to automatically find 21 of the 29 pitfalls. Try it out and give the authors feedback. The whole community will benefit.

Workers, professionals and managers are all becoming acutely aware of the discrepancy between the performance of consumer based technology and their internal IT department. The gap between the information and services they can get for ‘free’ on the web vs. what they get from IT is creating a high level of frustration and dissatisfaction between IT...Continue reading→

gist is a minimalist upper ontology designed to aid the production of business oriented ontologies. It does not stand for anything; it is a word, meaning “a general understanding.” gist is freely available at www.semanticarts.com/gist and is licensed through the Creative Commons Share Alike license. It has been under development by Semantic Arts for over...Continue reading→

Semantic technologies will create incremental value by making us more perceptive, intelligent and collaborative learners. The knowledge modeling capabilities of semantic technology will encourage us to create abstract models of our ideas, run simulations to evaluate and improve them and then implement the new models faster. This will enable us to solve problems faster, implement...Continue reading→

Semantic technology makes us more effective, efficient and strategic. Effectiveness. A system that can easily be modeled to reflect the way you think or the processes you manage, increases your effectiveness. You can solve problems faster because you can quickly apply your problem solving process to a greater range of structured and unstructured data and you can...Continue reading→

They can be the same software. That isn’t the essential difference. There are many exceptions and edge cases but the central difference in moving from on premise to SaaS is that you are moving from a large capital budget item that takes a long time to approve to the steady drip of transaction or usage...Continue reading→

It mostly depends on whether you are the cloudor or the cloudee. If you are consuming cloud services theoretically there isn’t much difference, but practically there is. You will likely be paying more for a private cloud (not so much because it is inherently more expensive, but because there isn’t any competition) and consuming the...Continue reading→

There are four approaches (and a couple of the can be combined). The first is to implement on top of XP compliant data bases that allow the services to accept a commit to but still wait for the final confirmation. Given the heterogeneity of most environments this is highly unlikely. The second is to design...Continue reading→

A good ontology simplifies your information management systems because it creates an enterprise-wide definition of what things are called and their interrelationships. In our experience, even the complex requirements of multi-billion, global companies can be organized into ontologies of about 1000 concepts. Because ontologies reuse properties they can represent the real world complexities of a...Continue reading→