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We present an approach for efficient semantic-based building-blocks selection in the context of ERPs fast customizing, introducing Enduring Oak, a framework that implements an optimized greedy concept covering algorithm, able to deal with thousands of building block descriptions with reasonable computational times. The proposed approach uses a Description Logics reasoning engine in conjunction with a RDBMS to reduce the computational burden. We motivate the approach, present the framework and algorithms and illustrate experiments confirming the validity of our setting.
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Tinelli, E., Di Noia, T., Di Sciascio, E., di Cugno, F. (2007). Efficient Automatic Selection of Semantically-Annotated Building Blocks for ERPs Customizing. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_18
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