Ing. Luboš Král, Ph.D.

Virtual Organization management solutions address the need to support networks in their quest to optimize processes and business activities. Collaboration and management therefore have to be tackled by provision of adequate methods and services for the single users involved in dependence of their roles and profiles within the network. The chapter concentrates on the description of e-Services as Solutions for Virtual Organization management.

This article deals with the problem how to transform an ontology between different formalisms. The presented methodology requires defining meta-models of the source and the target formalisms and defining a mapping between them. This allows us then to convert any ontology encoded in the source formalism to the target one. It is further shown that an extension of the SumatraTT system can be used to implement such transformations easily. The research presented in the paper has been motivated by the needs of the CIPHER research project (Communities of Interest Promoting Heritage of Europian Regions).

Production of life critical application such as medical devices is one of the areas that require highly formal quality management system and also highly productive testing strategies. We would like to discuss the efficient strategies that keep the production and verification processes under the quality control. Also, impact of the automated testing strategies to the software development process is discussed. Our contribution is based on the cooperation with Vitatron Medical B.V. (Holland) in the development of medical devices. Vitatron Medical is a part of Medtronic Inc. (USA).

A systematic process of indexing cultural heritage artefacts began well before the era of computers. The first step of digitising such archives of hand- and typewriter-written data was naturally focused on transfer of these files into a digital form -- either by means of re-typing the original data manually or by applying OCR methods on scanned documents. As a result, there exist huge digital archives of data and metadata in Europe, which describe millions of artifacts kept by thousands of galleries, museums, and/or private collections. To explore such archives (incl. data mining methods), the data need to be converted into a unified format and data model. Moreover, the original indexing methodologies may also vary significantly. Thus, even conversion to a unified metadata (ontology) model is needed. Any data transformation is a tedious task, which usually requires to design, implement, and test number of scripts, which will be executed in order to transform the data sets.