Nowadays, the configuration of the world economy faces a deep productivetechnological reorganization, which main feature is the appearance on the scene of the emerging economies of the semi-periphery (Brazil, Russia, India, China, among others). The rise of these economies should result in the medium and long term in a reset level of the International Division of Labor and the relationship "cor...

Ontology versions are periodically released to ensure their usefulness and reliability over time. This potentially impacts dependent artefacts such as mappings and annotations. To deal with this issue requires to finely characterize ontology entities’ changes between ontology versions. This article proposes to identify change patterns at attribute values when an ontology evolves, to track textu...

This study was designed to understand the “landscape” of hospital incident reporting systems and to examine the use of health information technology to improve reporting, data analysis, and learning from errors in health care. To date, no systematic estimates exist of the characteristics of reporting systems operated by U.S. hospitals or of how these systems are being used. More research is nee...

Structuring enterprise information and supporting knowledge management is a growing application field for enterprise ontologies. Research work presented in this paper focuses on construction of enterprise ontologies. In an experiment, twomethods were used in parallel when developing an ontology for a company in automotive supplier industries. One method is based on automatic ontology constructi...

An ontology can be seen as a representation of concepts in a specific domain. Accordingly, ontology construction can be regarded as the process of organizing these concepts. If the terms which are used to label the concepts are classified before building an ontology, the work of ontology construction can proceed much more easily. Part-of-speech (PoS) tags usually carry some linguistic informati...

OWL is recognized as the de facto standard notation for ontology engineering. The Manchester OWL Syntax (MOS) was developed as an alternative to symbolic description logic (DL) and it is believed to be more effective for users. This paper sets out to test that belief from two perspectives by evaluating how accurately and quickly people understand the informational content of axioms and derive i...

Owing to the current turmoil in oil markets, a number of analysts have raised the specter of the world soon running out of oil. This concern emerges periodically in large measure because of the inherent uncertainty of estimates of worldwide reserves. Such episodes of heightened anxiety about pending depletion date back a century and more. But, unlike past concerns, the current situation reflect...

Western Asia has recently become an arena for significant upheavals of various kinds, be it political, safety-related, geopolitical, social, etc. These have in turn focalized the salience of the region as well as its ensuing situation and challenges on a global perspective. Such a naturally-born phenomenon is characterized, amidst other factors, by its transregional quality, granting it some so...

The major factors of insecurity in the East, away from the security of geopolitical area were because of the formation of political management in the nineteenth century colonial style. The security factor in the vast region of the East that encompasses at least three countries of Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan is very important and highly effective. It reached its peak colonial Anglo-Russian...