Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2007.

Contemporary engineering organizations are increasingly becoming reliant on advanced computing technology and information systems to ensure the effective management of their engineering assets. Ensuring the reliability, maintenance and management of assets is dependent on the integration and...

Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

An asset registry arguably forms the core system that needs to be in place before other systems can operate or interoperate. Most systems have rudimentary asset registry functionality that store assets, relationships, or characteristics, and this leads to different asset management systems...

Business activities rely on people?s understanding and interpretation of information. Meaning (semantics) is incorporated in the way information is defined and structured. From a semantics point of view information models range from low level semantics, such as taxonomies and data dictionaries,...

This paper reports on findings from the first stage of an exploratory study into the factors that influence the diffusion of ontologies in the Road Asset Management sector in Australia. The study investigates issues related to the diffusion of standard information models (taxonomies, road...

Recently heightened competition resulting from market deregulation and increased regulatory compliance requirements have demanded greater accountability for decision making in engineering asset management (EAM) organisations. However, the siloed information structure and fragmented business...

Contemporary business organisations need to be responsive to internal as well as external changes. Organisational intuitiveness, being fundamental to this responsiveness, requires that these organisations develop and manage their information processing and management infrastructure to enable an...