REA-based Enterprise Business Domain Ontology Construction

Business domain ontology construction is of great significance to improving business modeling and knowledge management. B ased on REA business process model ing method and integrated with enterprise strategy information, the paper proposes a REA-based two- layer enterprise business information architecture. And then the business domain ontology infrastructure is constructed in OWL DL language. To demonstrate and implement the method and architecture, an example of t obacco trading company is taken. The proposed architecture abstracts enterprise business information from strategic and operational level, covering the main business elements of enterprise operation . By adopting the business domain ontology the paper provide s a foundation for the conservation and reuse of business modeling and improves enterprise business modeling knowledge management .

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