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Semantics on the Cloud: Toward an Ubiquitous Business Intelligence 2.0 ERP Desktop

Authors:
Diletta Romana Cacciagrano
Emanuela Merelli
Leonardo Vito
Andrea Sergiacomi
Serena Carota

Keywords: Semantic Web; Ontology; Business Intelligence; Data Warehouse; Data Mining

Abstract:
Adequate information management requires more than persistently storing data. Owl-MeaiNinG (to read either owl-mining or owl-meaning) is an expandable ‘Business Intelligence 2.0’ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) prototype, with the aim to lead Public Administration toward Business Intelligence and information maturity. Designed for the Marche Region, Owl-Mea iNinG allows transforming, analysing and mining distributed and heterogeneous knowledge through semantic-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)-based components, integrated on a common semantic knowledge model and embedded in a Cloud-based middleware. Such an architecture puts Owl-MeaiNinG beyond the actual expert-oriented semantic computing and makes it a user-friendly environment, where also naive users can easily edit, monitor, execute and store transformation, analysis and mining operations as new, reusable and semantically consistent business process knowledge. Capabilities of (i) encoding operational knowledge into a declarative format and (ii) producing new and complex operational knowledge by composition of simpler declarative one allows realizing in Owl-Mea iNinG processes of externalization (i.e., converting tacit knowledge into explicit one) and combination (i.e., creating new explicit knowledge from existing explicit one). An example of externalization on the top of the Marche Region’s data warehouse is proposed to show how exploiting Owl-MeaiNinG for converting implicit knowledge’s intangible character in its successful understanding and sharing.

Pages: 42 to 47

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-240-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012