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Business Continuity (BC) methods use threat identification, continuous improvement, and recommendations to ensure running the organization's main activities in case of disruptive events. Information Systems, on the other hand, are increasingly based on service-based structures and are seen as fundamental instruments to guarantee business continuity. The paper presents the ontological foundations for representing business continuity semantics, which are based on a widely adopted information systems research framework. The overall aim of this work is to provide BC with formal semantics and business people with an emerging informal BC modeling method.
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Ben Amara, O., de Nicola, A., Kamissoko, D., Benaben, F. (2022). Towards an Ontological Approach to Business Continuity Assessment. In: Villazón-Terrazas, B., Ortiz-Rodriguez, F., Tiwari, S., Sicilia, MA., Martín-Moncunill, D. (eds) Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web . KGSWC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21422-6_24
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