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CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling
: 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...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
ER
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Towards Active Conceptual Modelling for Sudden Events
There are a number of issues for information systems which are required to collect data urgently that are not well accommodated by current conceptual modelling methodologies and a...
John F. Roddick, Aaron Ceglar, Denise de Vries
ER
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
What's in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been successfully used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual mod...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
UML for Ontology Modelling and Interoperability
The Semantic Web vision aims to integrate and convert the vast amount of information available on the Internet into a machine-understandable network. The objective is to promote kn...
Vandana Kabilan, Paul Johannesson
FOIS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a formal ontology for history of church administration
Abstract. The paper presents preliminary results in the area of ontological engineering for historical research. Historical information systems are still in the initial stage of de...
Pawel Garbacz, Robert Trypuz, Bogumil Szady, Piotr...