Business Ontologies invited talk by Mr. Anders W. Tell (Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB, Sweden) on 07/14/2005

* Subject Invited Speaker Presentation - AndersTell - Thu 2005-07-14 * Agenda Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;The maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborationsandquot; * Date Thursday, July 14, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_07_14 * Abstract (by Anders Tell) During the last few years a relatively large number of technologies for eCommerce and business integration has been suggested, developed and to a degree standardised. However most commercial trade transaction are still today executed with little to no electronic means, i.e. paper based. A key question must be raised how much andquot;businessandquot; such technologies really include? Concerns are also being raised with regards to proposed solutions being overly complex, technological and costly, such as PKI, and that simpler pragmatic means may actually be a faster road to an efficient end. The session focus on an elaboration on selected key business and legal aspects that may differentiate andquot;business technologiesandquot; from andquot;technologies that support businessandquot;. This from the viewpoint and assumption that business mean changes in social, business, economical and legal relations.