An Enterprise Ontology-Based Database for Continuous Monitoring Application

Abstract

Sometimes information systems fail or have operational and communication problems because designers may not have knowledge of the domain which is intended to be modeled. The same happens with systems for monitoring. Thus, an ontological model is needed to represent the organizational domain, which is intended to be monitored in order to develop an effective monitoring system. In this way, the purpose of the paper is to present a database based on Enterprise Ontology, which represents and specifies organizational transactions, aiming to be a repository of references or models of organizational transaction executions. Therefore, this database intends to be a generic risk profiles repository of organizational transactions for monitoring applications. Moreover, the Risk Profiles Repository presented in this paper is an innovative vision about continuous monitoring and has demonstrated to be a powerful tool for technological representations of organizational transactions and processes in compliance with the formalisms of a business ontological model.