Showing papers on "Ontology-based data integration published in 1992"

Definitions of tool integration for environments

Abstract: Tool integration is not a property of a single tool, but of its relationships with other elements in the environment, chiefly other tools, a platform, and a process. Tool integration is about the extent to which tools agree. The subject of these agreements may include data format, user-interface conventions, use of common functions, or other aspects of tool construction. A framework that determines how well tools are integrated into an environment and that defines integration independently of the mechanisms and approaches used to support integration is proposed. Process, data, control, and presentation integration properties are described separately so as to identify them as clearly and independently as possible. Emphasis is placed on definitions of integration properties on relationships between tools rather than on the specific integration-support mechanisms. >

Enterprise Information Modeling and Model Integration in Carnot

Abstract: This paper describes a method for integrating separately developed information models The models may be the schemas of databases, frame systems of knowledge bases, domain models of business environments, or process models of business operations The method achieves integration at a semantic level by using an existing global ontology to develop semantic mappings among resources and resolve inconsistencies Our method is incorporated in a graphical integration tool The integrated models provide a coherent picture of an enterprise and enable its resources to be accessed and modified coherently

IDEF5 Ontology Description Capture Method: Concepts and Formal Foundations

Abstract: : An ontology can be though of as a structure for representing knowledge about the world as perceived from different perspectives such that those perspectives can be related to one another. Viewed simply as the study of what there is, ontology as an activity is at work across the full range of human inquiry prompted by humanity's persistent effort to understand the world in which it has found itself - and which it has helped to shape. In the context of human-designed-and-engineered systems, ontologic inquiry is motivated not by the search for knowledge for its own sake, but by the need to understand, design, engineer, and manage such systems effectively. IDEF5 development has been targeted at filling a methodological gap for reliably extracting ontologies in a manner that closely reflects human conceptualization of the domains in question. The IDEF5 method does so by enabling practitioners to recognize and validate the nature and structure of a given engineering, manufacturing, business, or logistical domain and then store that knowledge in a usable representational medium.... Integration, Ontology, IDEF, Knowledge acquisition, Requirements definition, Information engineering, Method, Systems engineering, Information systems, Methodology.

A Common Data Schema for Tool Integration

Abstract: An open, extensible, EDIF-compatible administrative data schema based on general system engineering requirements is presented. Several system engineering tools, particularly hardware design tools, are integrated into the same framework using this schema. The use of this Common Data Schema implemented by using services of the framework’s object management system allows all tools to share the administrative data covered by this schema. In addition to EDIF, a configuration management subschema is provided.