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...debate ,paper ,we follow ,up on ,the argumentation ,given by boris wyssusek, who criticizes the use of the bww-ontology as a foundation of conceptual modelling. in addition, we mention some other possible founda- tions for conceptual,modelling. we have,over many,years looked at the,area of semiotics, given our social constructivistic view of modelling, and we give a brief...
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...can be used as a foundation of agent concepts and for evaluating agent-oriented modelling methods. ufo is derived from a synthesis of two other foundational ontologies, gfo/gol and ontoclean...and linguistics/cognitive engineering, respectively, the main purpose of ufo is to provide a foundation for conceptual modelling, including agent- oriented modelling....
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...and control flow, often disregarding the main goal of the future internet of services, namely to allow the smooth interaction of people and computers with services...their ultimate social benefits, taking the overall impact on the organizational structure into account. along these lines, the contribution of this proposal is a first...
Published in 2008.
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...services are now offered through the web, and that the
notion of service is at the core of a wholly new organizational paradigm...complex temporal entities (events)
based on the central notion of commitment. analyzing services as complex events allows us to clarify the relationships between the various agents that participate to...
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...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...uml class diagrams as a conceptual modeling language. we also compare our ontological analysis of some parts of the uml with the one proposed in (ew01)....
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...research program by conducting an ontological analysis to investigate
the proper representation of types whose instances are collectives, as well as the representation of part-whole relations involving them...and subcollective-collective in terms of formal mereological theories of parthood, as well as in terms of the modal meta-properties of essential and inseparable parts.
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...part due to widespread adoption of the unified modelling language (uml). in addition, the use of ontology as a framework for evaluating conceptual modelling techniques has gained acceptance. in this paper, we consider implications of applying one aspect of the ontology of mario bunge to conceptual modelling. specifically, conceptual modelling has traditionally failed to provide...
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the current chapter presents an overview about the current stage of the foundational ontology gfo. gfo (general formal...med (ontologies
in medicine) at the university of leipzig. unique selling properties of gfo are the following: it includes categories of objects
(3d objects) as well...
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conceptual modelling has a lengthy history. in the context of software engineering, over the last three decades, conceptual
modelling has moved from largely being...future application/research areas for conceptual modelling. of prime importance must be the synergistic
exploration of model quality, a topic poorly represented in the conceptual modelling literature.
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