Automated REA (AREA): a software toolset for a machine-readable resource-event-agent (REA) ontology specification

This paper demonstrates a toolset developed by the authors to enable a machine-readable REA ontology specification. Information modelling tech-niques are used to provide a unified enterprise ontology by capturing the busi-ness semantics using Conceptual Graphs (CGs) using Common Logic (CL) and the Conceptual Graph Interchange Format (CGIF) dialect for information ex-change and transmission. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used for model verification, knowledge discovery and extraction. The enterprise design follows the Open Groups definition of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) to define the system architecture and subsequently provide a method for defining and automating the (REA) design models for; Business Architecture, Information System Architecture and Technology Architecture.