BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology
ABSTRACT: Modern business organizations experience increasing challenges in the development and evolution of their enterprise systems. Typical problems include legacy re engineering, systems integration/interoperability, and the architecting of the enterprise. At the heart of all these problems is enterprise modeling. Many enterprise modeling approaches have been proposed in the literature with some based on ontology. Few however adopt a foundational ontology to underpin a range of enterprise models in a consistent and coherent manner. Fewer still take data driven re engineering as their natural starting point for modeling. This is the approach taken by Business Object Reference Ontology (BORO) It has two closely intertwined components: a foundational ontology and a re engineering methodology. These were originally developed for the re engineering of enterprise systems and subsequently evolved into approaches to enterprise architecture and systems integration. Together these components are used to system.
J. Inf. Syst.