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Aligning the UEML Ontology with SUMO

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Enterprise Interoperability IV

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The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) provides a hub for integrated use of the many different modelling languages available for representing enterprises and their information systems (IS). For this purpose, UEML centres around a common ontology that interrelates the semantics of existing modelling languages and their constructs. This paper uses ontology mapping to preliminarily compare UEML's ontology with the Suggested Merged Upper Ontology (SUMO). In addition to suggesting extensions of and improvements to both ontologies, the comparison paves the way for an eventual inclusion of the UEML ontology into SUMO or into one of its successors. The procedure used to compare and map the two ontologies is another contribution of the paper.

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  1. Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

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  1. Future Manufacturing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, CV1 5FB, Coventry, UK

    Keith Popplewell

  2. Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire, UK

    Jenny Harding

  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering EPSA, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Pza Ferrandiz y Carbonell, 2, 03801, Alcoy, Spain

    Raul Poler

  4. Grupo de Integración y Re-Ingeniería de Sistemas DLSI, Universidad Jaume I., Av Sos Banyant s/n, 12071, Castellon, Spain

    Ricardo Chalmeta

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Opdahl, A. (2010). Aligning the UEML Ontology with SUMO. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_38

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