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...
Abstract. In recent years ontologies – shared conceptualizations of some domain – are increasingly seen as the key to further automation of information processing. Although man...
Current e-service technology paradigms require the analysis and conceptual modeling of cooperative inter-organizational workflows. Cooperation among different organizations is base...
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...
So far, conceptual modeling of Web applications has been used primarily in the upper part of the life cycle, as a driver for system analysis. Little attention has been put on expl...
Piero Fraternali, Maristella Matera, Andrea Maurin...
This paper discusses some of the implications of introducing the dynamic object role concept into object-oriented metamodels on both implementational and conceptual modeling levels...
Andrzej Jodlowski, Piotr Habela, Jacek Plodzien, K...
An open challenge is to integrate XML and conceptual modeling in order to satisfy large-scale enterprise needs. Because enterprises typically have many data sources using differe...
David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Reema Al-Kamha
UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) ...
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...
In Multi-agent based simulation (MABS) systems, computational models are built as multi-agent systems (MAS). Replication of these models can contribute to improve the reliability o...