: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
Uncertainty always exists as an unavoidable factor when developing context-aware applications for pervasive computing environments [1][2][3][4]. In this paper, we propose a unifie...
An ontology is a formal representation of a domain modeling the entities in the domain and their relations. When a domain is represented by multiple ontologies, there is need for ...
Abstract. Over the last decade there has been a shift from "data-aware" information systems to "process-aware" information systems. To support business processe...