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WSPI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A Formal Theory of Conceptual Modeling Universals
Conceptual Modeling is a discipline of great relevance to several areas in Computer Science. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL)...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Marten van Sinde...
DKE
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Using ontologies with UML class-based modeling: The TwoUse approach
UML class-based models and OWL ontologies constitute modeling approaches with different strength and weaknesses that make them appropriate for specifying different aspects of soft...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab
UML
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Ontology-Based Approach for Evaluating the Domain Appropriateness and Comprehensibility Appropriateness of Modeling Languages
In this paper we present a framework for the evaluation and (re)design of modeling languages. We focus here on the evaluation of the suitability of a language to model a set or rea...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luís Ferreira Pires, M...
ER
2007
Springer
117views Database» more  ER 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Interoperability via Category Theory
This paper aims to bring the benefits of the use of Category Theory to the field of Semantic Web, where the coexistence of intrinsically different models of local knowledge mak...
Isabel Cafezeiro, Edward Hermann Haeusler
ER
2001
Springer
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14 years 4 days ago
Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs
Abstract. Conceptual models are formal descriptions of application domains that are used in early stages of system development to support requirements analysis. The Unified Modeli...
Joerg Evermann, Yair Wand