Authors:
Duarte Pinto
1
and
David Aveiro
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Madeira, Portugal
;
2
University of Madeira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute and INESC-INOV, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Change, DEMO, Case Study, Validation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Context
;
Data Engineering
;
Domain Analysis and Modeling
;
Enterprise Ontology
;
Knowledge Acquisition
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Reengineering
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper has as its background, a practical enterprise change project where the Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) was used in the initial stage as to give a neutral and concise but comprehensive view of the organization of a local government administration in the process of implementing an e-government project. The main contribution presented in this paper is an interview based qualitative validation of some of DEMO's axioms and claimed benefits – something that, to our knowledge has never been done up to now. Namely, we were able to validate DEMO's qualities of conciseness and comprehensiveness brought about by the transaction and distinction axioms and also the stability of its ontological models which are, by nature, highly abstracted from the human and technological means that implement and operate an organization.