TOVE Project Papers

Fazal-Zarandi, M., (2007), “A Retail Ontology: Formal Semantics and Efficient Implementation”, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Available
Kim, H.M., Fox, M.S., and Sengupta, A., (2007). “How To Build Enterprise Models to Achieve Compliance to Standards or Regulatory Requirements (and Share Data)”, Journal of the Association of Information Systems. Available
Kim, H.M., Sengupta, A., Fox, M.S., and Dalkilic, M. (2007). “A Measurement Ontology Generalizable for Emerging Domain Applications on the Semantic Web”, Journal of Database Management, Vol 8, No 1. Available
Fox, M.S., and Huang, J., (2005), “Knowledge Provenace in Enterprise Information”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 20, pp. 4471-4492. Available
Bernus, P., and Fox, M.S., (Eds.), (2005), Knowledge Sharing in the Integrated Enterprise, Springer. Not Available
Tham, K.D., and Fox, M.S. (2004), “Determining Requirements and Specifications of Enterrprise Information Systems for Profitability”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Available
Kim, Henry M. and Fox, Mark S. (2002). “Using Enterprise Reference Models for Automated ISO 9000 Compliance Evaluation”, Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. Available
Kim, Henry M. and Fox, Mark S., (2002). “Towards Quality Management Web Services: An Ontology of Measurement for Enterprise Modeling”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2348, pp. 230-44. Available
Gruninger, M., Atefi, K., and Fox, M.S., (2000), “Ontologies to Support Process Integration in Enterprise Engineering”, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 381-394. Available
Kim, H.M., Fox, M.S., and Gruninger, M., (1999), “An ontology for quality management – enabling quality problem identification and tracing”, BT Technology Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 131-140. Available
Kim, H.M., (1999), “Representation and Reasoning About Quality using Enterprise Models”, PhD Dissertation, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Available
Tham, K.D., (1999), “Representation and Reasoning About Costs Using Enterprise Models and ABC”, PhD Dissertation, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Available
Fox, M.S., Barbuceanu, M., Gruninger, M., and Lin, J., (1998), “An Organisation Ontology for Enterprise Modeling”, In Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups, M. Prietula, K. Carley & L. Gasser (Eds), Menlo Park CA: AAAI/MIT Press, pp. 131-152. Available
Fox, M.S., Gruninger, M., (1998), “Enterprise Modelling”, AI Magazine, AAAI Press, Fall 1998, pp. 109-121. Available
Tham, K.D., and Fox, M.S. (1998), “Enterprise Models and their Cost Perspective”, Proceedings for the Industrial Engineering and Management, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers Forum. Not Available
Fox, M.S., Gruninger, M., (1997), “On Ontologies and Enterprise Modelling”, International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling Technology 97, Springer-Verlag. Available
J. Lin, M. S. Fox and T. Bilgic, (1997), “A Product Ontology”, Enterprise Integration Laboratory Technical Report . Available
J. Lin, M. S. Fox and T. Bilgic, (1996), “A Requirement Ontology for Engineering Design”, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications , Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 279-291, Sept. 1996. An earlier version appears in Proceedings of 3rd international conference on concurrent engineering, pages 343-351. Available
Gruninger, M., and Fox, M.S., (1996), “The Logic of Enterprise Modelling”, Modelling and Methodologies for Enterprise Integration, P. Bernus & L. Nemes (Eds.), Cornwall, Great Britain: Chapman and Hall. Also appeared in: Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, IIE, Nashville TN, also appeared in: Re-engineering the Enterprise, J. Browne & D. OUSullivan (Eds), London England: Chapman & Hall, pp. 83-98. Available
Fox, M.S., Barbuceanu, M., and Gruninger, M., (1996), “An Organisation Ontology for Enterprise Modelling: Preliminary Concepts for Linking Structure and Behaviour”, Computers in Industry, Vol. 29, pp. 123-134. An earlier version appeared in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies – Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises , West Virginia University. Available
Gruninger, M., and Fox, M.S. (1995), “Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies”, Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing, IJCAI-95, Montreal. Available
Kim, H., Fox, M.S., and Gruninger, M., (1995), “An Ontology of Quality for Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 105-116. Available
Gruninger, M., and Pinto, J.A. (1995), “A Theory of Complex Actions for Enterprise Modelling”, Working Notes AA AI Spring Symposium Series 1995: Extending Theories of Action: Formal Theory and Practical Applications, Stanford. Available
Gruninger, M., and Fox, M.S., (1994), “The Design and Evaluation of Ontologies for Enterprise Engineering”, Workshop on Implemented Ontologies, European Workshop on Artificial Intelligence 1994,, Amsterdam, NL. Available
Gruninger, M., and Fox, M.S., (1994), “The Role of Competency Questions in Enterprise Engineering”, Proceedings of the IFIP WG5.7 Workshop on Benchmarking – Theory and Practice, Trondheim, Norway Available
Fadel, Fadi G., Fox, M.S., and Gruninger, M. (1994) “A Generic Enterprise Resource Ontology”, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies – Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises , West Virginia University. Available
Tham, D., Fox, M.S., and Gruninger, M., (1994), “A Cost Ontology for Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies – Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises , West Virginia University. Available
Barbuceanu, M., Fox, M.S., (1994), “The Information Agent: An Infrastructure Agent Supporting Collabortive Enterprise Architectures”, Appears in: Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises Morgantown, WV., IEEE Computer Science Press. Available
Kim, H., and Fox, M.S., (1994), “Formal Models of Quality and ISO 9000 Compliance: An Information Systems Approach”, American Quality Congress (AQC) Conference, American Society for Quality Control, Las Vegas NV. Available
Gruninger, M., and Fox, M.S. , (1994), “An Activity Ontology for Enterprise Modelling”, Submitted to: Workshop on Enabling Technologies – Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises , West Virginia University. Available
Fadel, Fadi G., Fox, M.S., and Gruninger, M. (1994) “A Resource Ontology for Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the Third Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Institute of Industrial Engineers, pp. 455-460. Available
Fox, M.S. and Gruninger, M., (1994), “Ontologies for Enterprise Integration”, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Toronto, Ontario. Available
Fox, M.S., Gruninger, M., and Zhan, Y., (1994), “Enterprise Engineering: An Information Systems Perspective”, Proceedings of the Third Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Norcross Georgia USA, pp. 461-46 Available
Fadel, F.G., (1994), “A Resource Ontology for Enterprise Modelling”, M.A.Sc. Thesis, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto. Available
Fox, M.S., (1994), “Issues in Enterprise Modelling”, Information and Collaboration Models of Integration, S.Y. Nof (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Netherlands, pp. 219-234. Available
Fox, M., Chionglo, J.F., and Fadel, F.G., (1993), “A Common Sense Model of the Enterprise”, Proceedings of the 2nd Industrial Engineering Research Conference , pp. 425-429, Norcross GA: Institute for Industrial Engineers. Available
Fox, M.S., (1993), “Issues in Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics , Le Toquet France, IEEE. Available
Fox, M.S., (1992), “The TOVE Project: A Common-sense Model of the Enterprise”, Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Belli, F. and Radermacher, F.J. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence # 604, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 25-34. A version has been reprinted in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Object Oriented Manufacturing Systems, Calgary Manitoba, pp.176-181, and in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Natural Language Scientific Conference, Avignon France, pp. 23-30. Available
Fox, M.S., (1992), “The TOVE Project: Towards A Common-sense Model of the Enterprise”, Enterprise Integration Laboratory Technical Report. Available