The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

Technical debt is a term that has been used to describe the increased cost of changing or
maintaining a system due to shortcuts taken during its development. As technical debt is a …

Currently, there is a considerable body of experience in building ontologies. Nevertheless,
knowledge acquisition using ontologies is still a research issue. The goal of this paper is to …

A new ontology based approach is proposed to model and operate chatbots (OntBot).
OntBot uses appropriate mapping technique to transform ontologies and knowledge into …

Domain engineering aims to support systematic reuse, focusing on modeling common
knowledge in a problem domain. Ontologies have also been pointed as holding great …

Ontology is a significant data model for identifying semantic information for Coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) discovery. Large-scale biological and general datasets have recently …

In multi-agent systems, goal achievement is challenging when agents operate in ever-
changing environments and face unseen situations, where not all the goals are known or …

Ontologies offer significant benefits to multi-agent systems: interoperability, reusability,
support for multi-agent system (MAS) development activities (such as system analysis and …

A sharing platform is a digital platform that facilitates access to underutilized goods by
renting or lending them to others. Users become less dependent on ownership which …

In general, professionals still ignore scientific evidence in place of expert opinions in most of
their decision making. For this reason, it is still common to see the adoption of new software …