Abstract The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades
by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy …

Managing complex disaster situations is a challenging task because of the large number of
actors involved and the critical nature of the events themselves. In particular, the different …

Over the last years, numerous ICT applications with mechanisms to detect situations have
been developed to support disaster management (DM), which is a field of a great societal …

WordNet is a large lexical database used by an uncountable number of applications for
computational linguistics. Many proposals have attempted to better describe it in a semantic …

In order to enhance interoperability and productivity in the develop-ment of situation-aware
applications for disaster management, proper mecha-nisms and guidelines are required …

Complex decisions are an unusual process, composed of actions. An impact is a measure of
the tangible and intangible consequences of one thing on another. Impacts are …

In software engineering, conceptual modelling is a technique for describing a problem
domain related to a software system. Although its primary purpose is to promote human …

Konceptuální modelování slouží v oblasti softwarového inženýrství k popisu problémové
domény související se softwarovým systémem. Ačkoliv primárním účelem je zlepšení …

Handling irregular phenomena might bring great complexity for involved teams. Variables
considered for undertaking recommended procedures may yield many decision alternatives …

OntoUML is a modeling language for creating conceptual ontologies, which often presents
challenges in comprehension for non-experts. Additionally, its graphical representation …