Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction

Ontologies form an indispensable basis for modeling and engineering languages for business enterprise and information systems: fostering a need for the integration of structural and behavioral aspects in domain-oriented ontologies.

The Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction documents high-quality research addressing ontological issues that are relevant to the modeling of enterprises and information systems in general and business processes in particular covering both static and dynamic aspects of structural concepts. This authoritative handbook provides crucial reference content to researchers, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of language design, information systems, enterprise modeling, domain engineering, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Agent-oriented enterprise model
• Aristotelian ontologies
• Business partner management
• Demands of mobile users
• ICT Management
• Information system support for supply chain management
• Knowledge management support of enterprise distributed systems
• Language and algorithms for ontology merging
• Model-driven business transformations
• Ontology design
• Organizational Memory
• Organizational theories integration
• OWL modeling
• Partner selection in business interaction
• Secure socio-technical systems
• Semantic business process models
• Semantic technologies
• Socio-instrumental pragmatism