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ER
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
: Conceptual modelling is a widely applied practice and has led to a large body of knowledge on constructs that might be used for modelling and on methods that might be useful for ...
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ER
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
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EKAW
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2004
Springer
There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers (e.g., [1,2]) we have been using the Gener...
EDOC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
In previous work, we have defined conceptual foundations that can be beneficially used in context modeling. These conceptual foundations include the separation of entity and conte...
CAISE
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2004
Springer
: 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...