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1. Process of requesting a quotation to external suppliers or manufacturers in front of specific needs and quantities of goods and services StreetName AltomicAtinibute 5 6 Print a concept Athos system provides the option to save copy or print a concept offering to the users to do these actions via the browser options The name of a street or thoroughfare Figure 19 Glossary List To print a concept for example a user must e select a concept from the Concepts List e chose the Identification Section sub area via mouse he she like to print e click the right side button on the mouse to open the browser menu with the options e chose Print option and activate it 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 The Ontology Master Functions The Ontology Master with respect to the Ontology User is also enabled to modify the ontology content Similarly to the Ontology User environment the Ontology Master environment allows to View or Search concepts In addition the Ontology Master environment allows an Ontology Manager to e Create a new concept e Edit an existing concept e Delete an existing concept In the Ontology Master environment the Main button offers the New Concept option see Fig 20 Tthe Edit Concept and the Delete Concept buttons are enabled to enabling editing and deleting operations on concepts a Laboratory for
2. BuyerPurchasingFU Business ditions previously agreed and approved RFQMsg Message 2 Are you sure you want to delete the concept Delivery Doc BusinessObject Quotation Msg Message Currency Atomic Address Complex O StreetName AtomicAccreren O SendinaRFO Process O Delivery Doc BusinessObject Edit Concept Delete Concept User gino Role No Access intenet Figure 30 Deletion of an existing concept If the Ontology Master selects the OK button the concept will deleted from the ontology and all the relations with the other concepts are removed Otherwise if the user selects the No button the concept will not be deleted from the ontology 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 5 Pending terms managementt As previously clarified into this manual in addition to the terms referring to concepts specified in the ontology some terms related to concepts not yet defined are named Pending terms These pending terms are created during the definition process of new concepts to be added to the ontology and they are identified through any of the relations built to connect to concepts not yet defined These references are considered Pending terms are automatically tagged Pending They are included into the Concept List but are marked with a Red dot To transform a Pending term into a concept a Master has to Edit the term like a Concept
3. gt O saora Process structurat specific Y Structural section E Decompositions EN StreetName AtomicAttribute mincard 1 range String Y maxcard 1 ami Edit Concept Delete Concept iwi Figure 11 Display a concept Structural Section The Structural Section of the selected concept is presented according to a tree structure that can be expanded similarly to a Windows folder tree 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 1 3 The Specific Section The Specific Section panel is highlighted in Fig 12 afurosean Integrated Projects Athos Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems List speciolisations Decompositions search z d 5 Mana a Label Address O ES is Kind ComplexAttribute RemuestFor Quotation Dox do Description Te collection of information which locates and identifies a PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument P specific address as defined by postal services O BuyerPurchasingFU Business ctor XML Tag Address o Rane Sens Terminology Quotatior Msg Message PhysicalAddress Currency Atomic ttribute PostalAddress Address Complexattribute oferentes Street AtomicAttribute ana E O sas es Structural J specne E Specific section EQ Functional gt Functional_attrs O Functional false E 23 InverseFunctional S E I
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5. Description text fields as shown in the Fig 25 eryDoc aj Ideytification Section DSNgiptions ansver to a specific a Kind Customer to send goods according to Price Terms O BusinessObject and Conditions previously agreed and approved Lo Label Add Delivery Doc Author Descriptions xYZ answer to a specific e Customer to send goods XMLTag according to Price Terms O 4 DeliverySheet and Conditions previously agreed and approved z Add Terminology Add Remove Author Delivery bullettin xyz m Travel document XMLTag DeliverySheet References Ad emove Terminology Merriam Webster Add Remove Delivery bullettin Travel document Save Concept Reset References Red fields are mandatory Add Remove E mer lianas mierasor A Figure 25 Creation of a new concept Identification example Once all the data have been checked he she moves to the Structural Section selecting the corresponding button on the top bar remember that he she may also decide to click on the Save Concept saving only the Identification Section information or to clear all by clicking on the Reset button O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Moving to the Structural Section a different panel is shown In this window see Fig 26 he she may add an Attribute to the concept by selecting an existing one from the ontology list in this activity only t
6. E Enterprise A ga a Knowledge and sean Integrated Projecia il hs ka Systems ssar Create a new concept as Label Address pe E Kind Complexattribute O address Cape Description Th Collection of information which locates and identifies a BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor P specific address as defined by postal services Currency AtomicAttribute XML Tag Address PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument e Terminology Quotation Msg Message PhysicalAddress O RFQMsg MOS PostalAddress RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument References SendingRFQ Process 5 O Streetname AtomicAttribute structural specific Structural section wC Decompositions EUA Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 20 The Ontology Master environment Since the View and Search functions ate the same as in the Ontology User environment in the following sections only the additional functions will be described To see how to View or Search a concept see the Chapter 5 The Ontology User environment of this manual O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 1 Create a new concept To create a new concept an Ontology Master has to click on the Main button in the Menu bar and choose to click the New Concept tab This operation opens the Identification Section Form in a popup window Fig 21 upper and lower workin
7. Pending list or to select an existing concept from the concept list and link it to the new concept Such a concept must be in this case an Atomic Attributes AA or elementary data property or Complex Attribute CA structured data properties that are the only two kind of concepts linkable like attribute to a new Business Object As will be shown later with an example the action performed on this panel will generate information to be written into the Attributes window O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The same process is available for all the other data that is possible to manage via this panel At the end of the data insertion on this panel the Ontology Master may o click on the Save Concept button to save the new concept containing only the inserted definitions already built on in case of a future editing to add further information o click on the Reset button to reset all the work done o click on one of the Top bar buttons to select another pop up window either Identification or Specific to add other inputs to the new concept 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 1 3 Input of the Specific Section The Specific Section that is normally the third one the Master fills appears into the same popup panel in which the Identification and Structural
8. Section were and show buttons and fields to insert the data to compose the Structural tree of the new concept Fig 24 left for up and right for down area sinessObject Specific Secti Bu bje Speci on a Generated By Add Edit Remove Archived By Label Kind Add Edii Remove _ SendingRFQ Process Label Kind j Updated By Add Edi Remove States Description A Label description a label Used By f2 Add Edit Remove 5 Remove 4 Archived By Add Edit ve Save Concept Reset I Figure 24 Creation of a new concept Specific Section Each field with self explaining identification labels of identification and target buttons may be used to define the information linked to the new concept see the Introduction Athos concepts organization In particular it is possible to Add but also to edit or remove because the same panel is used for these functions as later explained specific information concerning how the concept is used in the modelled scenario As for the Structural Section depending on the kind of concepts to be specified the interface presents different fields to be filled For instance the user should fill the fields GeneratedBy UpdatedBy or States for Object and Goals Skills Responsibilities Managed Objects Collaboration for Actor The process of filling the Specific Section is very similar to the one described for the Str
9. String maxcard 1 Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 14 Display the decomposition hierarchy 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 4 The seatch function 5 4 1 The search function activation In order to search concept s in the Ontology a user has to click on the Search button of the Navigation bar this action activates the Search panel Figure 15 5 Laboratory for Lo j Enterprise A t i Ty a i Knowledge and a Puro sean Integrated Projecta ii ay in t Systems Search by Label v Value Address amp Structural section KIE Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 15 The Search function The Search panel shows two fields e the Search by field this is a pull down menu that defines the concept search criteria e the Value field is used to insert the search keyword The Value field accepts a value freely specified by the user The Search button activates the process The output of the search operation is shown in a list displayed below the search button Figure 16 O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual E Laboratory for d Enterprise A F Sy lt Knowledge and sFuiujean Integrated Prujecta t Aj ime d Systems ES PA e Identification N Label Address Kind ComplexAttribute The collection of informatio
10. standard interface Structural Specific Section Below the Identification Section panel the Structural Section button and the Specific Section button allow to show in an additional panel respectively the Structural Section and the Specific Section Additional details about the content of the S7ructural Section are given in Chapter 4 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 Ontology User Functions When an Ontology User enters in the Ontology User environment the Menu bar functions are activated the Navigation bar functions are activated and the List panel shows the Concepts of the accessed ontology in Label alphabetical order The panels regarding the Identification Section the Structural Section and the Specific Section Section are empty see Fig 9 E Laboratory for La Enterprise A F E Bs Knowledge and European Tntegtated Projects i fi Oo Systems Label Kind RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor RFQ Msg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address ComplexAttribute StreetName AtomicAttribute sendingrFO Process structural specific 3 Structural section Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 9 The Ontology User Environment Default display As already mentione
11. that are directly accessed or manipulated by the Process e In Out and Fault Messages the incoming outgoing messages of the Process The Fault messages allow to model the exceptions handling e Actors the actors that are requested for the execution of the Process e Estimatedlime the estimation of the Process execution time Actor Specific Section The relations that are specified in the Specific Section of the Actor are e Goals objectives that must be accomplished by the Actor in the form of an OCL expression e g salaries should be less that 60 of deprtment budget 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual e Skills indicating the actions it is able to perform or monitor i e list of processes and or operations e Responsibilities the processes in which the Actor is involved in achieving a Goal as above with his her its respective role i e performer controller stakeholder supporter and the Objects he she it can manage e Collaborations the other actors involved in the performed activities Message Specific Section A Message M is here considered as a particular case of Business Object Assuming that the Message templates is a specialization of the Object template It means that all the features of the Object template are in the Message template and at the same time in the Message template we have some more characterist
12. to access to Athos by filling e the User Name field with the user ID assigned by the Administrator e the Password field the related password assigned by the Administrator Enter Network Password E 2h xi gt Please type your user name and password Site leks pub iasi cnr it Realm Zope User Name Password I Save this password in your password list Figure 2 Login window Format and Language into the window is browser dependent The OK button allows the user to submit the inserted data and if correctly identified to enter If user name or password are wrong the following Unidentified user message appears You ate not authorized to access this resource The Athos users are organised into User Groups each of which has access to predefined ontologies Each user can only access the ontologies created within the User Groups he she belongs to The same ontology can be made available to different User Groups Furthermore the same user can access different ontologies with the same or a different user access rights 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The system opens the Ontology Login page shown in the Figure 3 with one or more environments identified as user access rights According to the combination of the selected User Group and the specific ontology the system is able to recognise the access level the category of
13. use 3 2 Athos User categories Athos is an ontology management system capable of managing several ontologies The access to an ontology is regulated defining groups and users with different access privileges In order to have a controlled access to each defined ontology the Athos Administration Team grants the access to each ontology through appropriate procedures see also the Athos Administration Service and the Accept ties to use the system O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The Athos Administrator manages in agreement with the responsible of the ontology the Ontology Master see below e access authorizations on request assigning a user ID and a password e different access levels two access rights levels have been identified that correspond to the following user s profiles o Ontology User o Ontology Master e organisation of users in groups User Groups e access restriction through the use of passwords e access monitoring through a log file An additional profile as previously said is represented by the Athos Administrator who may create new accounts remove or modify existing accounts and defines the types of access rights to be granted to a specific user To perform these activities the Athos Administrator works in conjunction with the User s Organizations In particular with the Ontology Master for th
14. 2 Pending list The listed concepts are fixed or pending with reference to the process that has created them In addition to the terms referring to concepts specified in the ontology there are some terms named 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Pending terms During its definition a concept can be associated through any of the above relations to concepts not yet defined Such concepts will be referred as Pending terms 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 3 The Athos System The Athos software system has been developed by LEKS IASI CNR within the Athena Project to support the definition and management of domain ontologies Its main characteristics are described in the following paragraphs 3 1 Generality The creation of an ontology in Athos is performed by filling forms organised in accordance with the OPAL meta model briefl The system is accessible via a web browser in the first version only through Internet Explorer All the ontology functions such as concept specification and updating concept reading system management an and administration can be performed remotely The Athos system server with the ontology repository is centrally managed by an Administration Team dedicated to accomplish all the activities for the Athos system maintenance and
15. AL concepts are connected by conceptual relations 2 2 2 Athos concepts templates The OPAL meta model is used in the user interface of Athos to guide the Knowledge Engineer in the construction of an Ontology In OPAL a concept is specified according to a traditional Frame Slot Facet modeling paradigm In particular there is a frame structure template for each concept category OPAL templates are used in the interface of Athos to allow the user to introduce domain concepts in the ontology 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual To show its structure an example of template for Business Concepts is shown in Fig 1 Purchase Order Doc BOD Identification and Structural Section Label PurchaseOrder Doc ID POR Description A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as a firm and formal request to a specific ManufactureriSupplier to produce and supply goodsiservices according to Price Terms and Conditions previously agreed and approved XML_TAG Purchase Order OtherTerms Order Product Order Service Order Author Giorgio References Merriam Webster C Structural Section Attributes Atomic PONumber AA range positive Integer Min Card 1 Max Card 1 Complex OrderLine CA Min Card 1 Max Card n Address CA Min Card 1 Max Card 1 OrderDate CA Charge CA IS A Document BO
16. Author bee o ooo XMLTag DeliverySheet Terminology Add Remove Delivery bulletin ravel document References Add Remove Dj Webster Save Concept Reset Red fields are mandatory Figure 29 Editing an existing concept All the values of the different fields ate displayed in the Identification Section Fig 29 The panel allows the user to modify Label Descriptions Author XML Tag Terminology References whereas the Kind field is fixed Selecting the Structural Section label the system opens a different window in the same panel In this window see Fig 22 he she may decide to change or add something to the concept picking up existing concepts from the ontology list this list displays only the concepts with the appropriate Kind according to the OPAL constraints The Ontology Master can also define new labels and 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual consequently pending terms As previously said a term is pending until it will be defined as a concept Successively selecting the Specific Section as already described see Fig 24 the Ontology Master can modify the value of all the fields with a process similar to that shown for the Structural Section via popup windows and data ties Finally he can save change the edited concept by clicking on the Save Concept button The system confirms the modificatio
17. D Part Of BusinessDocumentArchive 0 Relatedness DeliveryNote BOD Invoice BOD Purchase Order Doc BOD Specific Section Specific Section GeneratedBy P IssuingP O UpdatedBy P RequestingOrderStatus UsedBy P ProcessingPurchaseOrder ArchivedBy P ClosingP 0 AuthorizedBy A BuyerPurchasingFU State S Label S Deser Conditional issued Confirmed Open Modified Hold Blocked Cancelled Fulfilled Paid Archived Fig 1 Athos Template structure a Business Object Document example An Athos template is organised in three sections Identification Section Structural Section Specific Section The first two sections are the same for all the three templates while the third section is designed specifically for each template with the aim to represent domain specific links and dependencies 2 2 3 Identification Section It contains an intuitive and textual description of the concept plus a number of meta information fields e Label the preferred term to refer the conceptDescription natural language description e XMLTag a tag that can be used to refer to the concept in a XML documentTerminology synonyms of the preferred termsAuthor who defined the concept e References documental sources used for the concept definition 2 2 4 Structural Section It contains e Attributes they are classified as e Atomi
18. Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument O BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor O RFQ Msg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address ComplexAttribute O Streetilame AtomicAttribute SendingRFQ Process Y Structural section Edit Goncept Delete Concept Figure 4 The Athos standard interface Menu bar 4 1 The Menu Bar The Menu Bar is indicated in Fig 4 it is composed of three buttons each element is active only if the user has the enabled functionalities to use it The three buttons ate 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual e Main activates the operations that the user can perform on the ontology e Modes defines the basic modalities in which it is possible to use the tool they are Glossary Mode Ontology mode e Help that allows the user to access to the Athos guide 4 2 The Navigation Bar The Navigation Bar is highlighted in Fig 5 aFuropean Integrated Projects Laboratory for Enterprise r oy A Knowledge and l UZ ww Systems j aber Rl Label PurchaseOrder Doc a 7 gt Kind BusinessObjectDocument RequestForQuotation Doc Bushiessob ea Docunent A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description 2 firm and formal request to a specific Manufacturer Supplier to O B
19. EPT pirsingo e a ese e o do 33 6 THE ONTOLOGY MASTER FUNCTIONS esesesesssssssoocossesssssoseoesesssssosoosseseessssossossessssso 34 6 CREATE ANEW CONCEPT ud rd rd 35 6 11 Tnpurof the Identification S otioti rnt a t gs thai E R E rat A E A date Masa ae 35 6 1 2 Input of the AS A a ia n 37 6 1 3 Input Of he Speni A O 40 6 2 EXAMPLE OF CREATION OF A NEW CONCEPT since 43 0 3 EDITING AN E MISTING CONCEPT otoan r EEE E ros 47 6 4 DELETING AN EXISTING CONC PT 2 55 A BE R i 49 65 PENDING TERMS MANAGEMENT oi ici 50 He REFERENCES AA OO osser S oses ai Sopas o 51 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ivissscisonvenscesonsvedses cevseesssecsenstenscasenscdssanenvcnssiesonassandnsessousescaussunvesonaionsensenes 52 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 1 Executive summaty This document represents the ATHena Ontology System Athos User manual It is intended to provide guidance to potential users and Knowledge Engineers that are in charge of the creation and of the maintenance of specific Reference Ontologies to be used in activities connected to the Projects that are related to the development of Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Application under the European project ATHENA Athos is a softwate tool developed by LEKS Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems at IASI CNR for the definition and management of domain onto
20. Management Glossary httpviwww welcom cam 5 3 Structural section 4 gt Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 13 Display the specialisation hierarchy 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 3 Display a concept decomposition hierarchies To display a concept decomposition hierarchy of the ontology a User has to click on the Decompositions button of the Navigation menu bar The user selects a concept from the decomposition hierarchy by clicking on the row with the left button of the mouse The concept details are displayed in the Identification Section Fig 14 2 pene for nterprise A t En ra LES edge and ePurdvean Integrated Projecia i i Qe inca i Systems p ae Label Address Y Decomposition Hierarchy A R C RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument gri epica y peas PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description The collection ofinformation which locates and identifies a LA BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor specific address as defined by postal services L RFQ Msg Message XML Tag Address LA Quotation Msg Message Terminology LA Currency AtomicAttribute gt tamea PhysicalAddress C StreetName Atomicattribute Postal ddress LA sendingRFO Process References H 1 mn Ch AI ammm Y Structural section E Decompositions EY StreetName AtomicAttribute L mincard 1 1 range
21. ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual ANNEX 1 ATHOS USER MANUAL a European Integrated Projects Activity B6 Training 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Table of contents 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY irssi soto tiesios rads asisas eras bao isansa asdsa saoe iraso ase iscas aod 4 TA RESTRICION ORUSE 0 S AE E T seek ou E S A EAE A N E 4 12 ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM oao eesti A badd hon well AAA 4 LO DISCLAIMER a a At steeds 4 INTRODUCTION riesaa aE aa A sarera oai sa Seada sartaia oeras 4 2 1 DEFINITION OF AN ONTOLOGY ccccssccccccccccsssssscsccccccecessseseseccccceeessssesecsccseeseassesessccseeusaessvsescess 6 22 THE ATHOS METAMODEL fii cool save casts feted a a ei doo A iio 6 2 2 TOPAL metaconceptii s A nash dyes stag dain aes causal pa E A R 6 De Alhos concepts templates osi Ena EEE EE E caste abies E saa di E E opitegntbot wegen ayee 7 2 2 3 VIMOS RON AAA AAA AAA 8 IDA S WUCTUPALS CAOS a fi Sa BB la Sa ek 8 DIES DOI S ASAS iaa 9 2 3 ATHOS CONCEPTS REFERENCES AND USE cccssssssssceccccccesssssssceccccccessssscececcessssseueueecescesseseunenenss 11 DIO Concepts list ARAS AAA dt 11 232 A RS 11 THE ATHOS SYSTEM sisisisccsciecscscscsssccsscesscccocedecs suse sdcscccesdsedecesscecetesscssesesscscosessscasdesscccesssecson 13 SL GENERADA lA eke con I i aie Bee blest oe AS tld EP tah A eS ead oe 13 3 2 A THOS USER
22. and i graled Project al ee x Systems Glossar fent into glossary mode Label Kind RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor RFQ Msg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address ComplexAttribute Streetilame Atomic ttribute SendingRFQ Process Edit Concept Delete Concept EIG Figure 17 The Glossary display 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 5 2 Export glossary function In the Athos system User has the option to export a Glossary from the Concepts List This option is related to the list in the left section to this end he she has to click on the Menu bar the Main button selecting the option Export Glossary into the banner Fig 18 3 ra Laboratory for ra Pa f Enterprise Knowledge and New Concept anal A t ii O to Systems Label Kind RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument O BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor RFQMsg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address ComplexAttribute Streetilame AtomicAttribute SendingRFO Process Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 18 Export Glossary function The result is a Glossary page organized as follows like a print page form Pl
23. and supply all the appropriate information following the edit procedure 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 7 References IDEF5 TDEF5 Ontology Description Capture Method Overview http www idef com overviews idef5 htm Usch96 M Uschold M Gruninger Ontologies Principles Methods and Applications The Knowledge Engineering Review V 11 N 2 1996 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Acknowledgement The editors of this book acknowledge the following organizations for providing and revising the contents of this book UNINOVA SAP ESI TROUX DFKI TXT Formula AIDIMA SINTEF INTRACOM CRF FIAT and EADS IST 507849 This course has been developed under the funding of the EC with the support of the EC ATHENA IP Project A E Information Society Disclaimer and Copyright Notice Permission is granted without fee for personal or educational non profit use previous notification is needed For notification purposes please address to the ATHENA Training Programme Chair at rg uninova pt In other cases please contact at the same e_mail address for use conditions Some of the figures presented in this course are freely inspired by others reported in referenced works sources For such figures copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the origi
24. c Attributes AA elementary data properties 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual e Complex Attribute CA structured data properties e Hierarchies e ISA concepts specialization e g an invoice is a business_document e Part of concepts decomposition e g a department is part of an enterprise e Relatedness domain specific relationship between concepts e g the nvoice is related to the customer 2 2 5 Specific Section While the first two sections are the same for each concept kind the Specific Section is different from one concept to another Furthermore while in the Structural Section the user is free to define all the elements required to specify a concept in the Specific Section the elements to be filled are predefined and the user can not modify the given structure The features of the Specific Section for each concept category kind are the following Object Specific Section An Object has a Specific Section that reports the following information GeneratedBy UpdatedBy UsedBy ArchivedBy the Processes that create manipulate archive the Object e States labelled boolean expressions over the Object attributes or those of related concepts Process Specific Section The relations that are part of the Specific Section of the Process template are e Creates Updates Enquires and Archives Business Objects the business objects
25. d the Ontology User environment allows the Ontology User to inspect the ontology The user through the List function can 1 2 3 select the modality of list display by double clicking on the Label or Kind button scroll the concept list select a concept by clicking with the left button on the mouse the concept line will be highlighted View the corresponding concept details through the Identification Section Structural and Specific Sections 5 1 Display a concept To display a concept of the ontology a User has to select a concept from the Concept List in the left section with a click on the tow O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual s European Integrated Projects tebe kia o RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor RFQ Msg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address ComplexAttribute O Streetiame AtomicAttribute SendingRFQ Process Laboratory for tS Enterprise Knowledge and i Systems Label Address Kind ComplexaAttribute aie The collection of information which locates and identifies a Description specific address as defined by postal services XML Tag Address Terminology PhysicalAddress PostalAddress References minahan E Structural section 3 Decomposi
26. e domain of interest of the ontology in order to check and endorse the user and group organization 3 3 Ontology users and group organisation Ontology Users and Ontology Masters are organised into User Groups each of which is associated with the set of ontologies they can access The privileges of the Ontology Users are restricted to the browsing of ontologies while the Ontology Masters can use all the facilities that Athos supplies The Ontology Masters are the responsible of the management of an ontology Each user may belong to different User Groups and logs in an ontology by using a wser ID and a personal password All the access rights of the Ontology User are extended to the Ontology Master In particular e the Ontology User can access and browse the ontology but cannot modify its content e The Ontology Master has the possibility of using all Athos facilities to create concepts or to modify existing concepts 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual In this user guide the user access rights will be described incrementally starting from the level granted to an Ontology User to the access level granted to an Ontology Master 3 4 Athos Login The Athos system is accessible via the Internet at the address http leks pub iasi cnr it Athos After connection with the Athos home page the Athos Login window appears Figure 2 allowing the user
27. ease note that each concept may have more than one Description The Kind of a concept is reported in square brackets O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Label Description Address ComplecAitribute BuyerPurchasingFU BusivessActor The collection of information which locates and identifies a specific address as defined by postal services All the individuals and units that participate in the business buying process for an organization Currency AtomicAtinbute Monetary entity usually issued by the national government that are used as money Metal coins are also frequently included under the generic heading of currency The currency of money Uses values from ISO 4217 Currency used in the payment PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Quotation Msg Message A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as a firm and formal request to a specific Manufacturer Supplier to produce and supply goods f services according to Price Terms and Conditions previously agreed and approved The message used by the Supplier to send the Quotation to the Buyer RFQ Msg Message The message used by the Buyer to send the RFQ Doc to the Supplier RequestF orQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument A bid document used to solicit quotations from prospective sellers of products or Services SendingRFQ Proess
28. erred to as a conceptualisation In other words an ontology is an explicit agreed specification about a shared conceptualisation An ontology may have different degrees of formality but necessarily it includes a vocabulary of terms with their meaning definitions and their relationships According to IDEF5 an ontology is a domain vocabulary containing a set of precise definitions or axioms that e provide the meaning of the terms e enable a consistent interpretation of the terms defined in the vocabulary 2 2 The Athos metamodel A metamodel is a set of modelling notions definitions and rules that allows the definition of a conceptual model of a given domain Therefore the metamodel allows one to specify which are the information to be provided and the rules to be followed during the definition of concepts that constitute an ontology The metamodel adopted in the Athos system is based on a subset of the OPAL methodology For sake of conciseness such a methodology will not be recalled here entirely only a brief description of the OPAL modelling notions will be given in the following sections A complete description of OPAL is the object of the Part 2 of this deliverable 2 2 1 OPAL meta concepts According to OPAL Object Process Actor modeling Language an ontology is constructed by defining a set of concepts and establishing semantic relations among them OPAL supplies a set of predefined concept categories referred to as metac
29. from the concept list Two buttons Edit Concept and Delete Concept located at the bottom of the Structural panel allow the user these options are reserved to the Ontology Master to perform Edit or Delete operations on a concept selected in the list Additional details of this functions are described later into the Master environment section Chapter 5 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 4 5 The Structural Section panel The Structural Section panel is highlighted in Fig 8 Laboratory for E Enterprise A Fa Knowledge and ePurogean Irtegriled Projecte i i t wA Systems Ja ma Label PurchaseOrder Doc z 3 Kind BusinessObjectDocument ReequesthorQuoraeen 0oc Bustiessobjectacunent A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Darcii 2 firm and formal request to a specific Manufacturer Supplier to BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor P produce and supply goods services according to Price Terms and RFQ Msg Message Conditions previously agreed and approved Quotation Msg Message XML Tag PurchaseOrder Currency AtomicAttribute Terminology Address Complexattribute StreetName AtomicAttribute SendingRFQ Process Y Structural section m Relatedness Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 8 The Athos
30. g atea The window has o onthe top a menu bar with the buttons Identification Section Structural Section Specific Section to select one or another of the three available sections required to completely define a new concept Identification Structural Specific o inside the window depending on the selected buttons on the top one of the three different forms corresponding to one of the concept sections with fields and buttons to correctly insert the requested information By default the form related to the Identification Section is initially displayed 6 1 1 Input of the Identification Section Starting from the Identification Section that is normally the first one to be filled we see the fields with self explanatory labels that represent the required information for the Identification Section of a concept see the Introduction Athos concepts organization Identification Section Kind BusinessActor h Label Descriptions Add Author XMLTag Terminology Add Remove References Add Remove Ss A zl Identification section structural section specifi section 4 Descriptions C id Add Author m XMLTag n Terminology Add Remove References mo Save Concept Reset Red fields are mandatory Figure 21 Creation of a new concept The Identification Section The Kind Label and Descripti
31. he Atomic or Complex Attribute Kind concepts are displayed or by defining a new label In the latter case a Pending term is created The concept is Pending until its definition will be completed In both alternatives the Athos system supports user by opening a popup sub panel as shown in Fig 23 Min Cardinality r Create a new Concept Kind AtomicAttribute Max Cardinality Label E Save Reset Save Reset fee Select an existing Concept Label Kind Currency AtomicAttribute Addre ComplexAttribute O Streetiia AtomicAttribute Figure 26 Creation of a new concept Structural example In the example the Ontology Master adds an attribute by selecting Fig 26 left the Complex Attribute Address from the ontology list Then the system opens another popup window Fig 26 right where the Ontology Master can define the cardinality values and save the attribute The defined attribute can be shown in the Attribute window in the Structural Section panel Fig 27 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual a BusinessObject Structural Section Attributes Add Edit Remove Label Kind MinCard MaxCard _ Range Address ComplexAttribute 1 9 Add Edit Remove Label Kind l Partof Add Edit Remove Label Kind MinCa
32. ice Terms and Conditions previously agreed and approved RFQ Msg Message XML Tag DeliverySheet Quotation Msg Message Terminology Currency AtomicAttribute Bullettin O Address ComplexAttribute TravelSheet O StreetName AtomicAttribute References SendingRFQ Process Merriam Webster O Delivery Doc BusinessObject Other Company Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 28 Creation of a new concept Display of the inserted concept 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 3 Editing an existing concept To edit an existing concept an Ontology Master has to select a concept from the Concepts list panel and then click on the Edit Concept button in the right panel see Fig 28 above Once the Edit Concept button has been clicked the Identification Section popup window is opened Fig 29 Identification Section Kind BusinggsObject h Label Delivery Doc Descriptions answer to a specific e Customer to send goods according to Price Terms O and Conditions previ y agreed and approved hd E Author xyz XMLTa DeliverySheet Terminolo Ade Remove Delivery bulletin Travel document References Add Remove E Micra ll Microsof P AD Delivery Doc Descriptions answer to a specific 2 Customer to send goods according to Price Terms O and Conditions previously agreed and approved Y Add
33. ics The relations that are part of the Specific Section of the Message template are e Source the Actors who send the message e Destination the Actors who receive the message e Content the Business Object Document that is carried by the Message e PrecedingMessages the set of Messages that can precede a given Message in the iteraction between two Processes e FollowingMessages the set of Messages that can precede a given Message e PreCondition a boolean expression that must be true in order to allow the sending of the Message Business Object Document Specific Section Like the Message template also the Business Object Document BOD template is here considered as a particular case of Business Object and then considered as a specialization of the Object template The relations that are specifically part of the Specific Section of the BOD template are e AuthoredBy the Actors who can be identified as the authors of the BOD e CarriedBy the Messages that can carry the BOD as their actual content Atomic Attribute Specific Section The features of the Specific Section of the Atomic Attribute template are 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual e Domain the set of concepts for which a predication with the Attribute can be established Please note that if this property is valued with a list of concepts the domain must be interpreted as the uni
34. ither Structural Section or Specific Section to add other inputs to the new concept 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 1 2 Input of the Structural Section The Structural Section normally the second one that the Ontology Master fills is activated as a pop up panel into the same window panel in which the Identification Section was displayed the panel contains buttons and fields to insert the data required to fill the Structural template of the new concept Fig 22 left for upper and right for lower area 2 Label Kind Mincard Maxcard Range BusinessActor Structural Section Attributes ISA Add Edit Remove Add Edit Remove I Label Kind MinCard MaxCard Range J Label Kind j ISA Partof Add Edit Remove e a Add Edit Remove T y Label Kind I Label Kind Mincard Maxcard Relatedness Add Edit Remove Partof Add Edit Remove r z 7 l j Label Kind MinCard MaxCard Label Kind Rene Maxcard Relatedness Add Edit Remove Save Concept Reset Figure 22 Creation of a new concept The Structural Section Each field with self explaining identification labels and target buttons may be used to define the information linked to the new concept see the Introduction Athos concepts
35. logies 1 1 Restriction of use Athos has been developed and released as a deliverable of the European ATHENA project A3 Knowledge Support and Semantic Mediation Solutions The Athos tool is released for use by the authorized Athena project members for purposes linked to the Athena project objectives any other use outside this project should be authorized by the Athena Project management 1 2 Access to the system Athos functionalities can be accessed via a common web browser at the address http leks pub iasi cnr it Athos The browser must be enabled to accept cookies Potential users must request in advance access rights to the Athos Administration Center by e mail to dantonio iasi cnt it 1 3 Disclaimer Athos is released as a prototype software within an advanced research program LEKS LASI CNR cannot be held responsible for loss of data or information through potential malfunctions of the released software even if great care has been taken in Athos development and testing LEKS IASI CNR welcomes any information and suggestions that may improve the system Improvements and communications can be addressed to dantonio iasi cnt it 2 Introduction 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The current document is the user guide of the Athos Azhena Ontology System a software tool developed by LEKS at IASI CNR for the definition and management of do
36. main ontologies The current document is composed of the following chapters the current Chapter 2 Introduction provides a brief introduction to the concepts of an Ontology followed by the description of the modelling notions used by Athos and of the structure of the Athos user interface Chapter 3 Athos System gives an outline of the Athos system the different user profiles and the description of the Login Logout procedures that allow the access to the selected Athos functionalities Chapter 4 Athos Interface Description describes the functionalities and the panels that constitute a common structure of interaction and are available to all Athos profiles Chapter 5 Ontology User Functions describes the functions and the panels that are intended for the normal User Profile Chapter 6 Ontology Master Functions describes the functions and the panels that are reserved for the Ontology Master Profile An Appendix that lists useful references to concepts related to Ontologies 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 2 1 Definition of an Ontology An ontology represents a shared understanding of some domain of interest Usch96 It entails some sort of world view with respect to a given domain It contains a set of concepts e g representing entities attributes processes together with their definitions and their inter relationships this is also ref
37. n which locates and identifies a specific address as defined by postal services XML Tag Address Terminology PhysicalAddress PostalAddress References Laran i Y Structural section y Decompositions E StreetName AtomicAttribute mincard 1 L3 range String L3 maxcard 1 Search by Label v Value Address Description i Type Address ComplexAttribute Approved Edit Concept Delete Concept KIE Figure 16 The Search Result If more than one concept is found the selection of one displays its details in the Identification Section panel at the right of the screen 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 5 The glossary mode function 5 5 1 Glossary mode The normal Athos modality of operation is in Ontology Mode The Modes button on the Main Menu bar allows the User to operate in Glossary Mode by selecting the option Glossary Mode into the banner see Fig 17 When this operation mode is activated the Identification Section panel is expanded to allow the full display of all information related to the concept that can be selected by a mouse click on the concept list panel This mode of operation is particularly useful when new concepts for a specific reference ontology are collected and evaluated m Laboratory for qe E a j Enterprise Ontology Mode A E cy gt Knowledge
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39. ns with a po up window that displays Your changes have been saved prompting him her to terminate the operation with the Close button Otherwise he she may cancel the modifications by clicking the Reset button 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 4 Deleting an existing concept To remove a concept from the ontology the Ontology Master has to select it from the Concept list and then click on the Delete Concept button in the right section Once the Delete Concept button has been activated Athos prompts him her to confirm the activity by showing the Delete confirm window Fig 30 Fie Modifica Visualizza Preferiti Strumenti lt Indietro gt A A Acerca Preferiti Multimedia lt 4 B 3 a Indirizzo http leks pub iasi cnr it Athos2 TestOntology ManageOntology html ha vai Collegamenti Yr 2i Y search web gt amal E my Yahoo G3 Football SY Personals shopping LAUNCH sionin Laboratory for Fi Enterprise A t fa La Knowledge ana eBurojean Integrated Projects i 3 WA Pam Systems uba kind Label Delivery Doc i z g Kind BusinessObject RequestForQuotation Doc leo ais Aprinted document issued by the Seller as a firm and formal PurchaseOrder Doc SS Microsoft Internet Explorer xx ti e Customer to send goods according to
40. nverseFunctional_attrs E a InverseFunctional false Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 12 Display a concept Specific Section The Specific Section of the selected concept is also presented according to a tree structure that can be expanded similarly to a Windows folder tree 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 2 Display a concept specialisation hierarchies To display a concept specialisation hierarchy of the ontology a User has to click on the Specialisations button of the Navigation menu bar The user selects a concept from the specialisation hierarchy by clicking on the row with the left button of the mouse The concept details are displayed in the Identification Section Fig 13 a Laboratory for E Enterprise A t E g gt a i Knowledge and Le Systems s Furopean Integrated Projects Label RequestForQuotation Doc Kind BusinessObjectDocument Abid document used to solicit quotations from prospective sellers of products or services E Specialisation Hierarchy B Re E PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description 3 BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor RFQ Msg Message XML Tag Request_For_Quotation 3 Quotation Msg Message Terminology Lj Currency AtomicAttribute 3 Address ComplexAttribute Request for is StreetName AtomicAttribute References El SendingRFQ Process Project
41. on fields are three mandatory fields for the definition of a concept 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual Clicking on the Kind Fig 21 left field a pull down menu with the concept kinds proposed by the OPAL methodology is displayed By selecting a row the Ontology Master can choose a specific kind for the New Concept he she is going to create After the kind selection the Ontology Master has to fill with appropriate data the fields Label and Description Required fields while the other fields Author XML Tag Terminology and Reference can be omitted All fields during the creation cycle can be rewritten to change the content before saving the new concept The fields in which the Ontology Master may insert more than one statement Terminology and Reference Fig 21 right accept and show just under the insert area more than an input each additional input can be inserted via the Add button Each statement into these two windows may be removed by selecting it with a click on the row and then clicking the Remove button At the end of the data insertion on this panel the Master may o click on the Save Concept button Fig 21 right to save the new concept containing only the inserted definitions already built on o click on the Reset button to reset all the work done o click on one of the Top bar buttons to select another pop up window e
42. on of the set of instances of the specified concepts e Range the basic type of the attribute Possible values are int real string e Functional boolean value that says if for each instance of the Domain there is at most one instance of the Attribute if more than one then they represent the same object e InverseFunctional boolean value that says if for each instance of the Range there is at most one instance of the Domain Complex Attribute Specific Section The features of the Specific Section of the Complex Attribute template are e Domain the set of concepts for which a predication with the Attribute can be established e Functional boolean value that says if for each instance of the Domain there is at most one instance of the Attribute if more than one they represent the same e InverseFunctional boolean value that says if for each instance of the Range there is at most one instance of the Domain 2 3 Athos concepts references and use 2 3 1 Concepts list The process of ontology generation requires an initial definition of the ontology domain vocabulary this process is performed in Athos with the identification of the ontology concepts into a concepts list that contains two basic definitions e LABEL a term that denotes the concept mandatory e KIND the category to which the concept belongs The couple formed by the label and the kind of any concept must be unique mandatory 2 3
43. oncepts and semantic relations that form the OPAL framework The definition of a domain concept takes place by filling a concept template conceived according to a frame slot facet approach supplying first the OPAL category it belongs to then the filling of the specified slots 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The OPAL categories also referred to as kinds are classified as Primary and Complementary according to the following prospect Primary Kinds eActor aimed at modelling any relevant entity of the domain that is able to activate or perform a process e g Buyer Supplier eObject aimed at modelling a passive entity on which a process operates typically to modify its state e g Purchase Order Invoice eProcess aimed at modelling an activity that is performed by an actor to achieve a given goal e g Issuing Purchase Order Sending Request for Quotation Complementary kinds e Atomic Attribute 44 represents an elementary information such as street name e Complex Attribute CA is defined as an aggregation of lower level CA and or Atomic Attributes e Message Msg describes the interaction between processes e Business Object Document BOD represents the content of a message Other complementary meta concepts based on conditionals e g State Goal are used to complete the definition of Primary Concepts The OP
44. organization In particular it is possible to Add but also to edit or remove because the same panel is used for edit and remove functions as later explained Attributes Hierarchies Relatedness Depending on the kind of concept to be specified the interface presents different windows to be filled 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual In Fig 23 below the attributes of a new Business Actor are inserted Opening the corresponding Structural Section the Attributes window will be active Clicking the Add button Figure 23 left Structural Section a popup sub panel will be opened Figure 23 right BusinessActor Structural Section Create a new Cancept Kind AtomicAttribute y Attributes id Edit Remove Label Label Kind MinCard MaxCard Range po Save Reset ISA Add Edit Remove Label Kind Select an existing Concept Label Kind currency AtomicAttribute Address Complexattribute Partof O StreetName AtomicAttribute Add Edit Remove Label Kind MinCard MaxCard Relatedness Add Edit Remove P Figure 23 Creation of a new concept Attribute addition In the popup sub panel it is possible to enter a new concept if it is not yet defined this concept is considered as a Pending concept and becomes part of the
45. rd MaxCard Relatedness Add Edit Remove Figure 27 Creation of a new concept Example of an Addition of an attribute The process of defining Attributes is very similar to the process of correlating two concepts with relationships e g ISA Part of Relatedness In this example the Specific Section is not filled since this process is very similar to those described for the Identification Section and Structural Section Finally the Ontology Master saves the work done by clicking the Save Concept button The system confirms this with a popup window that displays Your changes have been saved prompting him her to terminate the operation with the Close button 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual The concept created is added in the Concept list Fig 28 shows both the concept list and the Identification Section as displayed when Athos System is in the glossary mode Laboratory for r Pa Enterprise E f Knowledge and sFurogean Ietegrated Projecte tUe to Systems E Label Delivery Doc Label End 1 Kind BusinessObject RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument Aprinted document issued by the Seller as a firm and formal O PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description comunication to a specific Customer to send goods according to BuyerPurchasimgFU BusinessActor Pr
46. seOrder Doc Kind BusinessObjectDocument Label Kind O _ RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDacument A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description a firm and formal request to a specific Manufacturer Supplier to BuyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor produce and supply goods services according to Price Terms and RFQ Msg Message Conditions previously agreed and approved Quotation Msg Message XML Tag PurchaseOrder Currency AtomicAttribute Terminology Address Complexattribute Order StreetName AtomicAttribute ProductOrder a SendingRFQ Process SericeOrdar Y Structural section H Relatedness Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 6 The Athos standard interface Concept List The Concept List panel shows the list of all the concepts of the selected ontology in alphabetic order Each concept is represented by its Label and Kind In addition each item has a green red indicator that show the concept status fully defined concepts green or pending terms red The Concept List can be shown in two more fashions e Specializations mode activated through the Specialisations button on the navigation bar allows concepts to be presented organized according to a specialization hierarchy e Decompositions mode activated through the Decompositions button on the navigation bar This but
47. the user Depending on the user category Athos allows the access to different ontology environments A click on the ontology name allows the user to reach the desired Ontology environment required 3 Login Page Athos requires Internet Explorer 6 or later and cookies enabled You are logged as You can access the LUN ontologies TestOntology A test ontology Figure 3 Login page 3 5 Athos Logout In order to disconnect log out a user from a given ontology a user has just to close the browser window 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 4 The Athos Interface description When a user connects to a specific ontology the system opens a working environment Athos has two main environments corresponding to the two user categories introduced in the previous section e Ontology User e Ontology Master They differ among them for the enabled functionalities As anticipated the Ontology Master environment enables all the Ontology User environment functionalities and some additional ones For this reason the user interfaces of the different environments will be presented incrementally starting from the first screen that appears after login as shown in Fig 4 Laboratory for Enterprise zI Sa Knowledge and Lepra Projectie Systems Label Kind RequestForQuotation
48. tions 23 StreetName AtomicAttribute f D mincard 1 Y range String t E maxcard 1 Edit Concept Delete Concept EIE Figure 10 Display a concept Identification Section In the Figure 10 the concept Address has been selected These operations display the content of the concept in the panels on the right 5 1 1 The Identification Section The Identification Section panel shows the main information about the selected concept that are Label Kind Description XML Tag Terminology and References as described into the introduction section of this manual 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 5 1 2 The Structural Section The Structural Section panel is highlighted in Fig 11 y i Laboratory for Enterprise a E A La a i Knowledge and aburogean Integrated Projects ih t peros i Systems 1 Label Address Label Kind Kind ComplexAttribute RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument smc The collection of information which locates and identifies a PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument Description specific address as defined by postal services BuyerPurchasimgFU Business ctor XML Tag Address RFQmMsg Message Terminology Quotation Msg Message PhysicalAddress Currency AtomicAttribute PostalAddress 5 Address ComplexAttribute References Stratname Atomic ttribute ana
49. ton allows concepts to be presented organized according to a decomposition hierarchy The function associated to the Search button are described later in chapter 5 4 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 4 4 The Identification Section panel The Identification Section panel is highlighted in Fig 7 ePurogean Ietegrated Projects Label Kind a RequestForQuotation Doc BusinessObjectDocument PurchaseOrder Doc BusinessObjectDocument O BuyerPurchasingFU Business ctor RFQ Msg Message Quotation Msg Message Currency AtomicAttribute Address Complexattribute StreetName Atomic ttribute SendingRFQ Process Enterprise Systems Laboratory for Knowledge and Label PurchaseOrder Doc Kind BusinessObjectDocument A printed or typed document issued by the Buyer Purchasing FU as a firm and formal request to a specific Manufacturer Supplier to produce and supply goods services according to Price Terms and Conditions previously agreed and approved XML Tag PurchaseOrder Terminology Order Aguci rder Description Y Structural section H Relatedness Edit Concept Delete Concept El Figure 7 The Athos standard interface Identification Section The Identification Section displays the meta data of the concept selected
50. uctural Section see Fig 23 right At the end of the data insertion on this panel the Ontology Master may O 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual o click on the Save Concept button to save the new concept containing only the inserted definitions already built on in case of a future editing to add further information o click on the Reset button to reset all the work done o click on one of the Top bar buttons to select another pop up window either Identification or Structural to add other inputs to the new concept 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 6 2 Example of creation of a new concept To better clarify the new concept creation process through the Athos system a short example follows The Ontology Master decides to add to the ontology the new concept Delivery Doc as a BusinessOb ject First of all he she has to select on the New concept tow on the Main Button banner of the Menu Bar and open the Identification Section window Fig 25 Since Delivery Doc is a BusinessObject kind concept the Ontology Master has to select BusinessObject from the Kind choice menu Then using the panel facilities he she has to fill at least the Label and
51. uyerPurchasingFU BusinessActor P produce and supply goods services according to Price Terms and RFQ Msg Message Conditions previously agreed and approved Quotation Msg Message XML Tag PurchaseOrder Currency AtomicAttribute Terminology Address ComplexAttribute Order StreetName Atomic ttribute ProductOrder SendingRFO Process _SeniceOrder lt a El Y Structural section i C Relatedness Edit Concept Delete Concept Figure 5 The Athos standard interface Navigation bar The Navigation Bar is indicated in Fig 5 it is composed by four buttons that activate the display of different panels related to the functions e List activates the list panel of the ontology concepts e Specialisations activates the specialisation functional panel e Decompositions activates the decomposition functional panel e Search activates the search functional panel A detailed description of the above functions is provided in the following paragraphs 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 2005 2006 The ATHENA Consortium ONT2 Ontology based support to Enterprise Interoperability ATHOS manual 4 3 The Concept List panel The concept list panel is highlighted in Fig 6 a Furogean Ielegrated Projects Laboratory for Enterprise 5 a tS Knowledge and il U mw Systems Label Purcha

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