This paper summarizes a vision of the challenges facing the so-called “Industry of the
Future” as studied by the research community of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on …

The number of applications being developed that require access to knowledge about the
real world has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Domain ontologies, which …

Over the last few years, the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) has gone
through substantial changes (Ågerfalk, 2018). What, then, could be more appropriate than to …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

Enterprise ontology is a novel subject, and writing a book on this novel subject puts the
author under the obligation to provide at least two kinds of explanation. One explanation …

Semiotics, the science of signs, has long been recognised as an important discipline for
understanding information and communications. Moreover it has found wide application in …

Privacy by design (PbD) is a policy measure that guides software developers to apply
inherent solutions to achieve better privacy protection. For PbD to be a viable option, it is …

What exactly is the difference between data and information? What is the difference between
data quality and information quality; is there any difference between the two? And, what are …

A suite of metrics is proposed to assess the quality of an ontology. Drawing upon semiotic
theory, the metrics assess the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and social aspects of ontology …

The goal of any modeling activity is a complete and accurate understanding of the real-world
domain, within the bounds of the problem at hand and keeping in mind the goals of the …