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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"

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An Ag concept is defined as a Thing that represents a BE and performs activities
for the BE.
Agent ??†
(= 1 HasID ?‹… StringData) ??§
( = 1 Represents ?‹… BusinessEnterprise) ??§
( >1 Performs ?‹… BusinessActivity)
A Business Activity defined as a Thing that is performed by an Ag, has a coordination
relationship with Rs, and has a Begin Time and an End Time.
Business Activity ??†
( = 1 hasLabel ?‹… StringData) ??§
( >1 isPerformedBy ?‹… Agent) ??§
( >1 hasCharacteristics ?‹… StringData) ??§
( >1 HasDescription ?‹… StringData) ??§
( >1 HasCoordination ?‹… Resource) ??§
( = 1 hasBeginTime ?‹… DateTimeData) ??§
( = 1 hasEndTime ?‹… DateTimeData)
Each Rs is defined as a Thing that is owned by exactly one BE and coordinates
Business Activities.
Resource ??†
( = 1 hasID ?‹… StringData) ??§
(>1 hasOwner?‹… Business Enterprise) ??§
(>1 Coordinates ?‹… BusinessActivity)
We utilize a novel and theoretically grounded, activity-resource, coordination mechanism
for capturing the relationships between activities and resources.


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