ADBIS
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
FOIS
2010
14 years 4 months ago
2010
Considerations regarding predication in ordinary language as well as the ontology of relations suggest a refinement of the Ontological Square, a conceptual scheme used in many foun...
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
1 Although ontology has gained wide attention in the area of information systems, a criticism typical of the early days is still rehearsed here and there. Roughly, this criticism s...
CAISE
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
2004
Springer
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...
IRI
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2007
IEEE
Ontology integration, alignment, and reuse are at the heart of Semantic Web vision. The alignment between two ontologies can be achieved easily provided both share the same axioma...