Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story

G Guizzardi, G Wagner, JPA Almeida… - Applied …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
This paper describes a long-term research program on developing ontological foundations
for conceptual modeling. This program, organized around the theoretical background of the …

Ontology, ontologies and the “I” of FAIR

G Guizzardi - Data Intelligence, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Ontologies of Time: Review and Trends.

V Ermolayev, S Batsakis, N Keberle… - … Journal of Computer …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Time, as a phenomenon, has been in the focus of scientific thought from ancient times. It
continues to be an important subject of research in many disciplines due to its importance as …

A commitment-based reference ontology for services

JC Nardi, R de Almeida Falbo, JPA Almeida… - Information systems, 2015 - Elsevier
The concept of “service” has been characterized in different disciplines and by different
authors from various points of view. This variety of characterizations has emerged because …

Formal ontologies in biomedical knowledge representation

S Schulz, L Jansen - Yearbook of medical informatics, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
Objectives: Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences
depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal …

Representing a reference foundational ontology of events in SROIQ

A Botti Benevides, JR Bourguet, G Guizzardi… - Applied …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational
ontologies, ie, formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, to provide a …

Towards a commitment-based reference ontology for services

JC Nardi, R de Almeida Falbo… - 2013 17th IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of" service" has been characterized by different disciplines and authors from
various points of view. The variety of characterizations reveals that this notion, although an …

NdFluents: An ontology for annotated statements with inference preservation

JM Giménez-García, A Zimmermann… - The Semantic Web: 14th …, 2017 - Springer
RDF provides the means to publish, link, and consume heterogeneous information on the
Web of Data, whereas OWL allows the construction of ontologies and inference of new …

[HTML][HTML] Using a trope-based foundational ontology for bridging different areas of concern in ontology-driven conceptual modeling

G Guizzardi, V Zamborlini - Science of Computer Programming, 2014 - Elsevier
In recent years, ontology-driven reference models have gained much attention in the
literature due to their potential key role in activities such as complex information modeling …

Ontology patterns for the representation of quality changes of cells in time

P Burek, N Scherf, H Herre - Journal of biomedical semantics, 2019 - Springer
Background Cell tracking experiments, based on time-lapse microscopy, have become an
important tool in biomedical research. The goal is the reconstruction of cell migration …