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Applying Foundational Ontologies in Conceptual Modeling: A Case Study in a Brazilian Public Company

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Information Systems (IS) should be based on consistent representations of the reality. Poor modeling results in problems throughout the IS development. Ontologies are key instruments for the improvement of conceptual modeling since they are able to provide well-defined semantics. This paper discusses the application of foundational ontologies in conceptual modeling, presenting partial results of a case study in which real UML diagrams were assessed according to ontological principles. Our findings indicate that violations of ontological restrictions of part-whole relations are somehow usual in modeling practices. In order to cope with this, we make a proposal for using part-whole relations based on ontological constraints, with the aim to seek for improvements in the practice of conceptual modeling.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Stefane Melo & Mauricio B. Almeida

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    Robert Meersman

  2. CRAN, University of Lorraine, Campus Sciences, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim Univeristy, Kızılcaşar Mh Mh, 06830, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

  4. Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  5. Dep. of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    António Lucas Soares

  6. SIGMA / LIG, Joseph Fourier University, 220 Rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

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  7. Institute for Research on Population and Social, National Research Council, Policies, Via Palestro 32, 00185, Rome, Italy

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  8. Dep. Business Informatics, Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Freistaedterstrasse 315, 4040, Linz, Austria

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  9. STINA Business Solutions GmbH, Schottenfeldgasse 63/2, 1070, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Moser

  10. SAP Research, 805 avenue du Dr Donat, 06259, Sophia-Antipolis, Mougins, France

    Michele Bezzi

  11. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PQ806, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong,, China

    Henry Chan

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Melo, S., Almeida, M.B. (2014). Applying Foundational Ontologies in Conceptual Modeling: A Case Study in a Brazilian Public Company. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_59

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