Iterative and incremental developmentIterative and incremental development is any combination of both iterative design or iterative method and incremental build model for development. Usage of the term began in software development, with a long-standing combination of the two terms iterative and incremental having been widely suggested for large development efforts. For example, the 1985 DOD-STD-2167 mentions (in section 4.1.2): "During software development, more than one iteration of the software development cycle may be in progress at the same time.
Web sémantiquevignette|300px|droite|Logo du W3C pour le Web sémantique Le Web sémantique, ou toile sémantique, est une extension du Web standardisée par le World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Ces standards encouragent l'utilisation de formats de données et de protocoles d'échange normés sur le Web, en s'appuyant sur le modèle Resource Description Framework (RDF). Le Web sémantique est par certains qualifié de Web 3.0. Selon le W3C, . L'expression a été inventée par Tim Berners-Lee (inventeur du Web et directeur du W3C), qui supervise le développement des technologies communes du Web sémantique.
Ontology learningOntology learning (ontology extraction, ontology generation, or ontology acquisition) is the automatic or semi-automatic creation of ontologies, including extracting the corresponding domain's terms and the relationships between the concepts that these terms represent from a corpus of natural language text, and encoding them with an ontology language for easy retrieval. As building ontologies manually is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, there is great motivation to automate the process.
Business process modelingBusiness process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter experts, who have specialized knowledge of the processes being modeled; or more commonly by a team comprising both. Alternatively, the process model can be derived directly from events' logs using process mining tools.
Web Ontology LanguageWeb Ontology Language (OWL) est un langage de représentation des connaissances construit sur le modèle de données de RDF. Il fournit les moyens pour définir des ontologies web structurées. Sa deuxième version est devenue une recommandation du W3C fin 2012. Le langage OWL est basé sur les recherches effectuées dans le domaine de la logique de description.
Product (business)In marketing, a product is an object, or system, or service made available for consumer use as of the consumer demand; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer. In retailing, products are often referred to as merchandise, and in manufacturing, products are bought as raw materials and then sold as finished goods. A service is also regarded as a type of product. In project management, products are the formal definition of the project deliverables that make up or contribute to delivering the objectives of the project.
Decision support systemA decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and help people make decisions about problems that may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance—i.e. unstructured and semi-structured decision problems. Decision support systems can be either fully computerized or human-powered, or a combination of both.
Réingénierie des processus d'affairesLa réingénierie des processus métier (RPA), également connu en anglais sous le nom business process reengineering (BPR), est une approche qui vise à repenser les processus d'affaires de l'entreprise et à les rendre plus efficace. Selon cette approche' l'entreprise abandonne l'organisation classique verticale fonctionnelle en faveur d'une organisation horizontale (structure plate) dans laquelle la prise de décision peut être déléguée (empowerment) aux acteurs opérationnels en front-office (ceux en contact direct avec les clients) et les fonctions supports (ou de soutien) du siège administratif sont réduites afin de permettre de dégager davantage de valeur pour les clients.
Semantic technologyThe ultimate goal of semantic technology is to help machines understand data. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, well-known technologies are RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). These technologies formally represent the meaning involved in information. For example, ontology can describe concepts, relationships between things, and categories of things. These embedded semantics with the data offer significant advantages such as reasoning over data and dealing with heterogeneous data sources.
Declarative knowledgeDeclarative knowledge is an awareness of facts that can be expressed using declarative sentences, like knowing that Princess Diana died in 1997. It is also called theoretical knowledge, descriptive knowledge, propositional knowledge, and knowledge-that. It is not restricted to one specific use or purpose and can be stored in books or on computers. Epistemology is the main discipline studying declarative knowledge. Among other things, it studies the essential components of declarative knowledge.
