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Completeness and quality of an ontology for an information system
FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Vol.46, pp.207-217
FRONTIERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
01 Jan 1998
Abstract
We examine the problems of completeness and quality in design of information systems. Taking the view that an information is a representation of a social reality created by genres of speech acts, we view the state of an information system as a text, and the dynamics of the system as essentially the dynamics of a text editor. This view enables us to make use of a generalised ontology developed by Bunge to get a clear picture of the functions of an information system, and therefore a set of criteria for ontological completeness. Further, quality in an information system is seen as a matching between the semiotics of the system and the semiotics of the organisation in which the system is embedded, allowing us to make use of the quality principles advocated by Debenham. The value of these results is essentially that they validate the large body of existing information systems, and also validate the basic approach used to construct them, although suggesting some improvements. We can build and use information systems confident that they will be valid under changes in the understanding of meaning and also changes in the understanding of the metaphysics underlying physical and social reality.
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- Title
- Completeness and quality of an ontology for an information system
- Creators
- R M ColombR Weber
- Contributors
- N Guarino (Editor)
- Publication Details
- FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Vol.46, pp.207-217
- Series
- FRONTIERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Identifiers
- 991019238559004721
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