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The failure rate for the creation of critical and agile Information Systems (IS) is striking. Public sector examples include NHS in the UK and Louvois in France. However, the situation in the private sector is no different. Various approaches have been proposed by software professionals with limited success. At the same time, the use of logic — the ‘mathematics of software’ — has been abandoned in favour of ‘coding’ alone, nor has its application been put to good use for comm

Michel Vanden Bossche and Ian MacLarty explore in this article the potential of three new W3C standards defined for the Semantic Web: Web Ontology Language (OWL), Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL), and Resource Description Framework (RDF). They allow the creation of an ontology, a model of a system that is compact and practical for use by programmer analysts working with business analysts.