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CAISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Association Construct in Conceptual Modelling - An Analysis Using the Bunge Ontological Model
Associations are a widely used construct of object-oriented languages. However, the meaning of associations for conceptual modelling of application domains remains unclear. This pa...
Joerg Evermann
CORR
2010
Springer
171views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
An Object-Oriented Metamodel for Bunge-Wand-Weber Ontology
A UML based metamodel for Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) ontology is presented. BWW ontology is a generic framework for analysis and conceptualization of real world objects. It includes c...
Arvind W. Kiwelekar, Rushikesh K. Joshi
ER
2007
Springer
103views Database» more  ER 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Ontological Semantics for the Use of UML in Conceptual Modeling
Despite its origins in software modeling, there has been growing interest in using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for conceptual modeling of application domains. However, the...
Xueming Li, Jeffrey Parsons
ER
2008
Springer
110views Database» more  ER 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
What's in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis
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...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models
Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Gerd Wagner