Ontology in the Core of Information Management - Information Management in Infrastructure Building

Irina Peltomaa, Esa Viljamaa

2013

Abstract

Information explosion sets challenges for companies but on the other hand offers opportunities to achieve competitive advantage through successful information management. Semantic interoperability solutions and ontologies especially, offer a powerful tool for information management. Ontologies provide a way to integrated disparate information sources in complex environment. Large scale infrastructure building process is extremely challenging assignment which successful follow through requires tool for effective information management. Earlier research presented a prototype implementation called Dynamic Site Control Centre (DSCC) for road construction process management. In this paper the formation and structure of ontology for the prototype implementation is described.

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Peltomaa I. and Viljamaa E. (2013). Ontology in the Core of Information Management - Information Management in Infrastructure Building . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-59-4, pages 161-168. DOI: 10.5220/0004438701610168


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Irina Peltomaa and Esa Viljamaa},
title={Ontology in the Core of Information Management - Information Management in Infrastructure Building},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={161-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004438701610168},
isbn={978-989-8565-59-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Ontology in the Core of Information Management - Information Management in Infrastructure Building
SN - 978-989-8565-59-4
AU - Peltomaa I.
AU - Viljamaa E.
PY - 2013
SP - 161
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0004438701610168