As information systems play a more active role in the management and operations of an enterprise, the demands on these systems have also increased. Departing from their traditional role as simple repositories of data, information systems must now provide more sophisticated support to manual and automated decision making; they must not only answer queries with what is explicitly represented in their Enterprise Model, but must be able to answer queries with what is implied by the model.


Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies (1995)


As information systems play a more active role in the management and operations of an enterprise, the demands on these systems have also increased....

As information systems play a more active role in the management and operations of an enterprise, the demands on these systems have also increased....

As information systems play a more active role in the management and operations of an enterprise, the demands on these systems have also increased....

As information systems play a more active role in the management and operations of an enterprise, the demands on these systems have also increased....