One of the key factors that hinders integration of distributed, heterogeneousinformation systems is the lack of a formal basis for modeling the complex, structuredknowledge that is to be exchanged. To alleviate this situation, we present anapproach based on core ontologies. Core ontologies are...

Die Ressource Wissen als Bestandteil der unternehmerischen Wertschöpfung hat in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Besonders davon beeinflusst sind Branchen und Geschäftsmodelle, deren Wertschöpfung zu einem Großteil auf Erwerb, Erzeugung und Nutzung von Wissen basiert ...

Die Transformation der Industriegesellschaft zur "Wissensgesellschaft" ist ein in vielen Punkten erst noch zu verstehender und zu erforschender Prozess. Man muss sich nicht lange mit der scholastischen Frage aufhalten, ob man aktuelle Umbrüche in Erwerbsarbeit und Gesellschaft unter diesem...

Recently evolutionary economists started to pay attention to ontological issues in theirown subfield. Two projects dominate the discussions: Generalized Darwinism(henceforth: GD), promoted by Geoff Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen, and theContinuity Hypothesis (henceforth: CH), put forward by...

The paper unravels the subversive nature of Schumpeter’s proposition that entrepreneurscarry out innovations (the micro level), that swarms of followers imitate them (meso) andthat, as a consequence, ‘creative destruction’ leads to economic development ‘fromwithin’ (macro). It is...

The purpose of this EU funded project is to describe a short and medium term Research and Deployment Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability in e-health. It started by defining 4 levels and 3 dimensions for Semantic Interoperabilty. The vision is to reconcile the needs for the direct patient care...

According to the advocates of a “Generalized Darwinism” (GD), the three coreDarwinian principles of variation, selection and retention (or inheritance) can be used as ageneral framework for the development of theories explaining evolutionary processes inthe socioeconomic domain. Even though...

Findings from a data mapping and extraction exercise undertaken aspart of the STAR project are described and related to recent work in the area.The exercise was undertaken in conjunction with English Heritage andencompassed five differently structured relational databases containing...