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2008
Springer
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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
ER
2000
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration eorts, however there ha...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Knowledge representation and the dimensions of a multi-model relationship
The exchange of data between different models in a multisimulation environment is about the exchange of information from within the context of two separate worldviews. This amount...
Charles D. Turnitsa, Andreas Tolk
FLAIRS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Rating the Naturalness of Ontology Taxonomies
The quality of ontologies (QoO) is increasingly becoming a research issue on the Semantic Web. Ontology users may have difficulties locating the proper concepts in large ontologie...
Yoo Jung An, Kuo-Chuan Huang, James Geller
ECIS
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Actor network theory and after: what's new for IS research?
The basic argument presented in the paper is that actor network theory has often been forced to adopt the ontology of interpretivism and thus suppress its own ontology. Interpreti...
Antonio Cordella, Maha Shaikh