Abstract. Perhaps the most fundamental notion underlying the desiderata for a successful Semantic Web is Semantic Interoperability. In this context, ontologies have been more and m...
One of the major goals of ontology is to represent properly the underlying conceptual structure of the messy world reflecting the reality as much as possible. Ontology building to...
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...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific information models. The orient...
In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...