Ontology merging, transformation, alignment and articulation —

How different levels of abstraction of ontologies help describe subject matter — Introduction There is no single way of going about designing and tailoring content (e.g. training material, teaching books, lecture teaching content, etc.) for learning and development purposes. It all boils down to what you want to give to your audience and how you go about doing that. If you are a…

Defining competency questions when following an ontology development methodology — Introduction A handful of existing ontology development methodologies identify competency questions as a means of scoping an ontology. This post discusses how we can define these questions at the start of our ontology projects for scope-setting purposes, to later use their basis during the assessment phase of the ontology development process.

Can ontology-based tools support business analysis practice? — Introduction Knowledge modelling has the potential of being extremely useful in the area of business analysis. Through ontology-based techniques it becomes possible to solve several ongoing issues faced by existing tools and methods in use. In this article, we’re going to look at a proposal for a novel approach for improving…

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology captured as an ontology formalised in the Web Ontology Language — Introduction In a previous post we saw how a process specification perspective can be applied to provide some structure and semantics for methodology description and execution, taking the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology as example. In this article, we’ll apply this perspective and expose a well-rounded ontology that captures the full…

Towards a formal ontology for describing LCA methodology Introduction Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology for studying a product system, from a sustainable engineering viewpoint, and quantifying and evaluating the environmental burden of that product system during its entire lifecycle. By objectively understanding the environmental profile of a product system…

Introduction If you come from a non-agile environment and want to understand the fundamental agile concepts, or a software engineer in the making with no prior exposure to agile ways of working, then you’ve landed at the right spot! Entering the world of agile software development will be a totally new…