TOVE - Ontology Methodology

The TOVE (TOronto Virtual Enterprise) methodology  is an ontological framework for enterprise integration (EI) based on and suited for enterprise modelling. The original goal was fourfold: create a shared representation of the enterprise that each agent in the distributed enterprise can jointly understand and use; define the meaning of each description or semantics; implement the semantics in a set of axioms that will enable TOVE to automatically deduce the answer to common questions questions about the enterprise, and set a common symbology for depicting a concept in a graphical context. The model according is multi-level, spanning conceptual, generic and applications layers.