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The goal of this contribution is to show that incorporating ontological analysis into modelling of enterprise information and knowledge systems during the software engineering process may bring considerable benefits. Necessary terms related to ontological analysis are defined, the most important being the Concept Map of the Domain (CMoD). The BORM method is then analysed from the ontological point of view and the ontological analysis is showed in the context of the layered Model Driven Architecture approach. Possible gaps that may occur between the layers in practice are studied. Two methods how to incorporate the ontological analysis into the modelling process to overcome those gaps are presented and discussed.
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Pergl, R. (2011). Supporting Enterprise IS Modelling Using Ontological Analysis. In: Barjis, J., Eldabi, T., Gupta, A. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8_10
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