Techniques for reliably estimating development efforts are a fundamental requirement for a wide-scale dissemination of ontologies in business contexts. In this paper we account fo...
The organization of objects into classes and categories is an essential task in the process of forming concepts. Within computer science, this classification activity must be suppo...
The research reported upon in this paper aims at reducing errors in both the requirements engineering and the system specification phase of software development, by means of system...
Ontologies constitute formal models of some aspect of the world that may be used for drawing interesting logical conclusions even for large models. Software models capture relevant...