Knowledge necessary for the creation of business process models is distributed, consists of different types, and expresses different levels of abstraction. Its acquisition and collection into a common knowledge base, which implies integration into a single model, is the goal of the approach we...

Semantics and ontologies offer an extension to traditional information systems in which information is given well-defined meaning, enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. With expanding uses and integrations of semantics and ontologies, research in Semantic Web engineering has...

The Semantic Web proposes the mark-up of content on the Web using formal ontologies that structure underlying data for the purpose of comprehensive and transportable machine understanding. This book brings contributions from researchers, scientists from both industry and academia, and...