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If one thing catches the eye in almost all literature about (re)designing or (re)engineering of enterprises, it is the lack of a well-founded theory about their construction and operation. Often even the most basic notions like "action" or "process" are not precisely defined. Next, in order to master the diversity and the complexity of contemporary enterprises, theories are needed that separate the stable essence of an enterprise from the variable way in which it is realized and implemented. Such a theory and a matching methodology, which has passed the test of practical experience, constitute the contents of this book. The enterprise ontology, as developed by Dietz, is the starting point for profoundly understanding the organization of an enterprise and subsequently for analyzing, (re)designing, and (re)engineering it. The approach covers numerous issues in an integrated way: business processes, in- and outsourcing, information systems, management control, staffing etc. Researchers and students in enterprise engineering or related fields will discover in this book a revolutionary new way of thinking about business and organization. In addition, it provides managers, business analysts, and enterprise information system designers for the first time with a solid and integrated insight into their daily work.

Organizational change. --- Reengineering (Management) --- Business process reengineering --- Re-engineering (Management) --- Management --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Computer science. --- Information technology. --- Information systems. --- Models and Principles. --- IT in Business. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Informatics --- Science --- Computers. --- Business—Data processing. --- Application software. --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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Metaphysics --- Office management --- Computer science --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- ontologie --- bedrijfseconomie --- informatica --- bedrijfsadministratie --- informatiesystemen --- informatica management

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If one thing catches the eye in almost all literature about (re)designing or (re)engineering of enterprises, it is the lack of a well-founded theory about their construction and operation. Often even the most basic notions like "action" or "process" are not precisely defined. Next, in order to master the diversity and the complexity of contemporary enterprises, theories are needed that separate the stable essence of an enterprise from the variable way in which it is realized and implemented. Such a theory and a matching methodology, which has passed the test of practical experience, constitute the contents of this book. The enterprise ontology, as developed by Dietz, is the starting point for profoundly understanding the organization of an enterprise and subsequently for analyzing, (re)designing, and (re)engineering it. The approach covers numerous issues in an integrated way: business processes, in- and outsourcing, information systems, management control, staffing etc. Researchers and students in enterprise engineering or related fields will discover in this book a revolutionary new way of thinking about business and organization. In addition, it provides managers, business analysts, and enterprise information system designers for the first time with a solid and integrated insight into their daily work.

Metaphysics --- Office management --- Computer science --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- ontologie --- bedrijfseconomie --- informatica --- bedrijfsadministratie --- informatiesystemen --- informatica management

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2012. The 29 best papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 347 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and information sharing.

Computer science. --- Database management. --- Data mining. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Database Management. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Informatics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Data mining --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Electronic data processing --- Database searching --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval

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Enterprise engineering is an emerging discipline that studies enterprises from an engineering perspective. This means that enterprises are considered to be purposefully designed and implemented systems, which consequently can be - designed and re-implemented if there is a need for change. Behavioral and m- agerial knowledge is perfectly adequate to identify the need for a change, but it is insu?cient to bring it about. Next, enterprise engineering is rooted in both the organizational sciences and the information system sciences. The rigorous integrationof these traditionallydisjoint scienti?c areashas become possible f- lowing the recognition that communication is a form of action. Since then it has been quite common to speak of communicative acts, like requesting and prom- ing. Consequently, communication (and information) is given an organizational interpretation: requests and promises are commitments, and communication is entering into and complying with commitments. This important insight clari?es the fact that enterprises belong to the category of social systems, i. e. , their - tive elements (actors) are social individuals (human beings). Founding itself on this newscienti?c paradigm,enterpriseengineeringaddressesthe challengesthat enterprisesarecurrentlyfacedwith,boththeinternalandtheexternalones. The unifying role of human beings makes it possible to address problems in a holistic way, to achieve unity and integration in bringing about organizational change. This has not been shown before. Thedevelopmentofsuchaninnovativeapproach,asenterpriseengineeringis, requiresthe activeinvolvementof a varietyof researchinstitutes and a tight c- laboration between them. This is achieved by a continuously expanding network ofuniversitiesandcompanies,calledtheCIAO!Network(www. ciaonetwork. org).

Office management --- Business policy --- Business management --- Programming --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- applicatiebeheer --- apps --- informatica --- bedrijfsadministratie --- informatiesystemen --- organisatiecultuur --- informatietechnologie --- software engineering --- architectuur (informatica)