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Criterion
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Purposedifferent
When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h1-3 h pro Pattern
Participantsdifferent
3-81-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action PlanSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation
Tagsno overlap
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
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