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A Common Foundational Theory for Bridging Two Levels in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling

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Software Language Engineering (SLE 2012)

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of Foundational Ontologies, i.e., ontological theories in the philosophical sense to provide real-world semantics and principled modeling guidelines for conceptual domain modeling languages. In this paper, we demonstrate how a philosophically sound and cognitively-oriented ontological theory of objects and moments (property-instances) has been used to: (i) (re)design a system of modeling primitives underlying the conceptual domain modeling language OntoUML; (ii) derive supporting technology for mapping these conceptual domain models to less-expressive computationally-oriented codification languages. In particular, we address here a mapping strategy to OWL (Web Ontology Language) which addresses the issue of temporally changing information.

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  1. Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO), Computer Science Department, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil

    Giancarlo Guizzardi & Veruska Zamborlini

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    Krzysztof Czarnecki

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Guizzardi, G., Zamborlini, V. (2013). A Common Foundational Theory for Bridging Two Levels in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling. In: Czarnecki, K., Hedin, G. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36089-3_17

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