A SOCIO-SEMANTIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF DOMAINS, PROCESSES AND TASKS IN LARGE PROJECTS

Carla Pereira, Cristóvão Sousa, António Lucas Soares

2009

Abstract

A case study involving a new method to support the collaborative construction of semantic artefacts in an inter-organizational context is described. The method aims at being applied, in particular, in the early phases of ontology development. We share the view that the development of semantic artefacts in collaborative networks of organizations should be based on a continuous construction of meaning, rather than pursuing the delivery of highly formalized accounts of domains. For that, our research is directed to the application of cognitive semantics results, specifically by developing and extending the Conceptual Blending Theory to cope with the socio-cognitive aspects of inter-organizational ontology development. An evaluation experiment for this method is accomplished in the scope of a large European project in the area of industrial engineering. The method evaluation and its results are described.

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Pereira C., Sousa C. and Soares A. (2009). A SOCIO-SEMANTIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF DOMAINS, PROCESSES AND TASKS IN LARGE PROJECTS . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 237-242. DOI: 10.5220/0002009302370242


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Carla Pereira and Cristóvão Sousa and António Lucas Soares},
title={A SOCIO-SEMANTIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF DOMAINS, PROCESSES AND TASKS IN LARGE PROJECTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={237-242},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002009302370242},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A SOCIO-SEMANTIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF DOMAINS, PROCESSES AND TASKS IN LARGE PROJECTS
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Pereira C.
AU - Sousa C.
AU - Soares A.
PY - 2009
SP - 237
EP - 242
DO - 10.5220/0002009302370242