Abstract. The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by - continuous or batch -- processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and t...
Modeling complex compositional objects in the field of the life sciences requires to solve intricate ontological problems, especially those related to parts of a whole, space and...
Abstract. This paper addresses several issues related to the use of conceptual modeling to support serviceoriented, advanced information systems. It shows how conceptual modeling o...
Abstract We describe the ‘Hierarchical as View’ approach to knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources. This is based on a novel representation called Layered Conceptual ...
Madalina Croitoru, Ernesto Compatangelo, Chris Mel...
Ontological metamodeling or multilevel-modeling refers to ng complex domains at multiple levels of abstraction, especially in domains where the borderline between individuals and c...