Ontologies for Business Networks Identification

摘要

Studies have shown that for the needs of the decision-making process, it is not enough to take into account the internal aspects of an organization, but its external business environment should be considered as well. Due to the rapid changes in the business environments and huge volumes of data that need to be analyzed, conducting analyses of the external environment is however challenging. In addition, the knowledge on the market rules and laws of economy is required in order to recognize existing relations between market subjects. We argue that the application of semantically annotated data can efficiently support the process of business environment analysis and allow for business network identification. Within this paper, we present a set of formal ontologies created to support such a process as well as identified requirements towards their scope and operational aspects.