This paper describes a long-term research program on developing ontological foundations
for conceptual modeling. This program, organized around the theoretical background of the …

According to the FAIR guiding principles, one of the central attributes for maximizing the
added value of information artifacts is interoperability. In this paper, I discuss the importance …

Abstract Maintenance and Industrial Asset Management (AM) are fundamental business
processes in guaranteeing the availability of physical assets at minimum risk and cost, while …

During project planning, knowledge about software processes is useful in several situations:
software processes are defined, activities are scheduled, and people are allocated to these …

Online user feedback is principally used as an information source for evaluating customers'
satisfaction for a given goods, service or software application. The increasing attitude of …

Background The FAIR principles recommend the use of controlled vocabularies, such as
ontologies, to define data and metadata concepts. Ontologies are currently modelled …

In recent years, there has been a growth in the use of reference conceptual models, in
general, and domain ontologies, in particular, to capture information about complex and …

In this chapter, we present a framework for the evaluation and (re) design of modeling
languages. In our approach, this property can be systematically evaluated by comparing a …

Several efforts that leverage the tools of formal ontology (such as OntoClean, OntoUML, and
UFO) have demonstrated the fruitfulness of considering key metaproperties of classes in …

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article, which was submitted as part
of a guest-edited special section. An investigation uncovered evidence of systematic …