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A System Core Ontology for Capability Emergence Modeling

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Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (EDOC 2023)

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To properly understand organizational adaptation and innovation, it is critical to understand the emergence phenomenon, i.e., how the capabilities of a system emerge after changes. However, for this, we should be able to explain systems, their structure, behavior, and capabilities. In pursuit of an understanding of the emergence phenomenon and the nature of those new kinds of systems in organizations, we propose a well-founded system core ontology based on the Unified Foundational Ontology. The ontology is also grounded in system science definitions and disposition theories. For a more integrated explanation of emergence, the proposed ontology considers distinct perspectives of a system, such as its composition, structure, properties, and functions. In the end, we discuss the applications and implications of the proposed ontology on the enterprise architecture area and emergence modeling.

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This study was supported in part by CNPq (313687/2020-0), FAPES (281/2021, 1022/2022), and the DSYNE INTPART network (Research Council of Norway project number 309404).

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  1. Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

    Rodrigo F. Calhau & João Paulo A. Almeida

  2. LEDS, Federal Institute of Espírito Santo, Serra, Brazil

    Rodrigo F. Calhau

  3. Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Rodrigo F. Calhau, Tiago Prince Sales, Ítalo Oliveira, Luís Ferreira Pires & Giancarlo Guizzardi

  4. Department of Science and Industry Systems, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway

    Satyanarayana Kokkula

  5. SIRIUS Centre, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    David Cameron

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Calhau, R.F. et al. (2024). A System Core Ontology for Capability Emergence Modeling. In: Proper, H.A., Pufahl, L., Karastoyanova, D., van Sinderen, M., Moreira, J. (eds) Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46587-1_1

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