Abstract

IDEON™: An Ontology for Modeling and Managing Distributed Enterprises

Azad M. Madni, Ph.D., Weiwen Lin, Ph.D., and Carla Conaway Madni
Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc.

Abstract

An organization's ability to achieve and sustain competitive advantage in the face of continual change depends, to a large extent, on the flexibility, interoperability, and maintainability of its enterprise management and control solution. In this regard, the major challenges facing organizations are: a) achieving seamless integration of enterprise design, management and control processes and supporting applications; b) ensuring inter-operability between new and legacy business applications; and c) being able to adapt strategies and ongoing operations to changes in the external and internal environments. This paper presents IDEON™, a unified enterprise ontology, that has been designed in response to these needs.

From:

Madni, A.M., Lin, W. and Madni, C.C., Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 10-12, 1999, pp. SE199-SE204.