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2003
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Entity Types Derived by Symbol-Generating Rules
Abstract. We review the definition of entity types derived by symbolgenerating rules. These types appear frequently in conceptual schemas. However, up to now they have received ver...
Jordi Cabot, Antoni Olivé, Ernest Teniente
SELMAS
2005
Springer
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Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem
Despite the relevance of the concept of role for conceptual modeling and agent-orientation, there is still in the literature a lack of consensus on the meaning of this notion and h...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
CAISE
2007
Springer
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Modal Aspects of Object Types and Part-Whole Relations and the de re/de dicto Distinction
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling languag...
Giancarlo Guizzardi