Taxonomies play an increasingly important role in knowledge management of business best practices, providing a basis by which to index, find and communicate knowledge. However, knowledge continues to evolve over time. As a result, taxonomies must also continue to evolve as organizations innovate and change. Reportedly, firms customize best-practice taxonomies to meet their unique organization n...

Taxonomies are widely used to classify information, and multiple (possibly competing) taxonomies often exist for the same domain. Given a set of correspondences between two taxonomies, it is often necessary to “merge” the taxonomies, thereby creating a unified taxonomy (e.g., that can then be used by data integration and discovery applications). We present an algorithm for merging taxonomies th...

Access to complex information bases through multidimensional, dynamic taxonomies (also improperly known as faceted classifications) is becoming a hot concept both in research and in industry. In this paper, the major shortcomings of conventional, monodimensional taxonomic approaches, such as the independence of different branches of the taxonomy and insufficient scalability, are discussed. The ...

Most organizations use large and complex spreadsheets that are embedded in their mission-critical processes and are used for decision-making. Identification of the various types of errors that can be present in these spreadsheets is, therefore, an important first step to creating controls that organizations can use to govern their spreadsheets. While a considerable amount of research on quantit...

A functional model of an artifact shows an important part of designer’s intention. A taxonomy of generic functions plays a crucial role in describing such functional models. Improving interoperability among functional models of different functional taxonomies facilitates sharing functional models among designers in organizations. The mapping between the different functional taxonomies and the c...

Resources in virtual organizations are classified based on their local taxonomies. However, heterogeneity between these taxonomies is a serious problem for efficient cooperation processes (e.g., knowledge sharing and querying-based interactions). In order to overcome this problem, we propose a novel framework based on aligning the taxonomies of virtual organizations. Thereby, the best mapping b...