Ontological foundations for feature-based modeling

Ontological foundations for feature-based product modelling

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Ontological Foundations for Agent-Oriented Organizational Modeling

This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) design, evaluation and integration of conceptual modeling grammars and models; (ii) the ARKnowD agent-oriented software engineering methodology to develop knowledgecentered systems and processes; and (iii) methodological contributi...

Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, to provide a theoretically sound foundation for improving the theory and practice of conceptual modeling. In this paper, we present advances on our research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling by addressing the concept ...

Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling

On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling

As pointed out in the pioneering work of [WSW99,EW01], an upper level ontology allows to evaluate the ontological correctness of a conceptual model and to develop guidelines how the constructs of a conceptual modeling language should be used. In this paper we adopt the General Ontological Language (GOL), proposed in [DHHS01], for this purpose. We discuss a number of issues that arise when apply...