The slides for my Business Rules Forum presentation on event semantics and focusing on events in order to simplify process definition and to facilitate more robust governance and compliance are at Event-centric BPM. After the talk I spoke with Jan Verbeek and Gartjan Grijzen of Be Informed and reviewed their software, which is excellent. They [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ontology’
Simple problems with the semantic web
The standard for defining ontologies these days is OWL and Protege. Unfortunately, OWL lacks any notion of exceptions in inheritance or any other notion of defeasibility. So, although you may want to say that birds fly, you’re ontology will be broken (or become much more complicated) when you realize there are birds that can’t fly, [...]
What is has always been going to be
I’ve been working for a while now on an ontology for representing events (which includes process, of course). One of the requirements of a system that is to monitor, govern, implement, or reason about processes is that it consider “situations”, which are things that happen or occur, including events and states. (See, for example, the [...]
Time for the next generation of knowledge automation
In preparing for my workshop at the Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas on November 5th, I have focused on the following needs in reasoning about processes, about events, and about or over time: Reasoning at a point within a [business] process Reasoning about events that occur over time. Reasoning about a [business] process (as [...]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Ontology
A panel on whether or not ontology is needed to achieve a collective vision for the semantic web was held on Tuesday at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) near Washington, DC. For most of the panelists the question was rhetorical. But there were a few interesting points made, including that machine learning of [...]
A Common Upper Ontology for Advanced Placement tests
I have previously written about the lack of a common upper ontology in the semantic web and commercial software markets (e.g., business rules). For example, the lack of understanding of time limits the intelligence and ease of use of software in business process management (BPM) and complex event processing (CEP). The lack of understanding of [...]
Cyc is more than encyclopedic
I had the pleasure of visiting with some fine folks at Cycorp in Austin, Texas recently. Cycorp is interesting for many reasons, but chiefly because they have expended more effort developing a deeper model of common world knowledge than any other group on the planet. They are different from current semantic web startups. Unlike Metaweb’s [...]
Agile decision services without XML details
Externalizing enterprise decision management using service-oriented architecture orchestrated by business process management makes increases agility and allows continuous performance improvement, but… How do you implement the rules of EDM in an SOA decision service?