Building Business Applications By Integrating Heterogeneous Repositories Based on Ontologies.
Noriaki Izumi, Takahira Yamaguchi · 2001
This report proposes an integrated support methodology for constructing business models including employing new business models, transplanting existing business activities to computers, and decision making support in employing new environment of computers. In order to model enterprises and business activities and to implement them as software applications, heterogeneous repositories in different granularities of business models are integrated based on ontologies. By devising a framework, which picks the main concepts of repositories up and make correspondence among them, our framework achieves the unified reuse of existing repositories of business activities and software libraries. We have implemented the prototype system by JAVA and confirmed that it supports us in various phases of business application development including business model manifestation, detailed business model definition and an implementation of business software applications. 1