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Towards Ontological Foundations for Agent Modelling Concepts Using the Unified Fundational Ontology (UFO)

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems II (AOIS 2004)

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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 used as a foundation of agent concepts and for evaluating agent-oriented modelling methods. UFO is derived from a synthesis of two other foundational ontologies, GFO/GOL and OntoClean/DOLCE. While their main areas of application are the natural sciences and linguistics/cognitive engineering, respectively, the main purpose of UFO is to provide a foundation for conceptual modelling, including agent-oriented modelling.

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  1. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  2. Computer Science Department, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology at Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany

    Gerd Wagner

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    Paolo Bresciani

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  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000, Broadway, NSW, Australia

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Guizzardi, G., Wagner, G. (2005). Towards Ontological Foundations for Agent Modelling Concepts Using the Unified Fundational Ontology (UFO). In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_8

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