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FOIS
2010
14 years 12 days ago
On the Representation of Quantities and their Parts in Conceptual Modeling
In a series of publications, we have employed ontological theories and principles used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling grammars and models. In this artic...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
GECCO
2005
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
There's more to a model than code: understanding and formalizing in silico modeling experience
Mapping biology into computation has both a domain specific aspect – biological theory – and a methodological aspect – model development. Computational modelers have implici...
Janet Wiles, Nicholas Geard, James Watson, Kai Wil...
BALT
2006
14 years 2 months ago
On Ontology, ontologies, Conceptualizations, Modeling Languages, and (Meta)Models
In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A mathematical analysis of collective cognitive convergence
Multi-agent systems are an attractive approach to modeling systems of interacting entities, but in some cases mathematical models of these systems can offer complementary benefits...
H. Van Dyke Parunak
KBSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Formal support for merging and negotiation
Model merging is an important activity in software development. We often need to integrate a set of models coming from different sources so as to create a unified model encompass...
Shiva Nejati