For over a decade now, a community of researchers has contributed to the ontological foundations of Conceptual Modeling by participating to the development of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and the UFO-based modeling language OntoUML, which have been successfully employed in a number of different sectors. The empirical feedback from these experiences led us to reconsider UFO’s theory of relations, proposing a new theory that has already been applied to model subtle notions in the business domain, such as value, risk, service, and contract. In this paper, we advance a first formal characterization of this new theory, which is then used to design a new metamodel for OntoUML.
Relations in ontology-driven conceptual modeling / Fonseca, C. M.; Porello, D.; Guizzardi, G.; Almeida, J. P. A.; Guarino, N.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 28-42. ( 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2019 bra 2019) [10.1007/978-3-030-33223-5_4].
Relations in ontology-driven conceptual modeling
Porello D.;
2019-01-01
Abstract
For over a decade now, a community of researchers has contributed to the ontological foundations of Conceptual Modeling by participating to the development of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and the UFO-based modeling language OntoUML, which have been successfully employed in a number of different sectors. The empirical feedback from these experiences led us to reconsider UFO’s theory of relations, proposing a new theory that has already been applied to model subtle notions in the business domain, such as value, risk, service, and contract. In this paper, we advance a first formal characterization of this new theory, which is then used to design a new metamodel for OntoUML.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
