From reference ontologies to ontology patterns and back

Ruy, Fabiano Borges; Guizzardi, Giancarlo; Falbo, Ricardo de Almeida; Reginato, Cássio Chaves; Santos, Victor Amorim dos

doi:10.1016/j.datak.2017.03.004

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“…3) until a level of concrete terminal elements (kinds and concrete ontology patterns) is reached. The OntoUML patterns have already been presented in [5] but at a more informal level. In this paper, we present the OntoUML patterns in a formal manner, using a graph transformation system.…”

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“…3 as well as their corresponding axiomatization (i.e., their corresponding ontological micro-theories) are reflected as modeling constructs in OntoUML [3]. Moreover, as shown in [5], this axiomatization ensures that the OntoUML constructs representing these ontological categories can only appear in a model forming clusters of constructs with their ties and associated constraints. In other words, as previously mentioned, the actual modeling primitives of OntoUML are certain pattern-based structures reflecting the ontological micro-theories comprising UFO.…”

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“…In a recent paper [5], we have shown that OntoUML comprises a number of ontology patterns reflecting corresponding ontological micro-theories put forth by its underlying foundational ontology (UFO) [6]. As discussed in [5], UFO is a system of micro-theories addressing basically all the classic conceptual modeling concepts.…”

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“…In [5], we presented the ontological patterns embedded in OntoUML, the connection between these patterns, and their possible combination rules. However, the characterization of OntoUML as a full-blown pattern grammar was done there in an informal way.…”

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“…As discussed in [5], UFO is a system of micro-theories addressing basically all the classic conceptual modeling concepts. For each of the ontological distinctions present in UFO and which are reflected as modeling constructs in OntoUML, we have a corresponding axiomatization.…”

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Abstract-In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of ontological theories in the philosophical sense (Foundational Ontologies) to analyze and (re)design conceptual modeling languages. This paper is about an ontologically wellfounded conceptual modeling language in this tradition, termed OntoUML. This language embeds a number of ontological patterns that reflect the micro-theories comprising a particular foundational ontology named UFO. We here (re)define OntoUML as a formal graph grammar and demonstrate how the models of this language can be constructed by the combined application of ontological patterns following a number of graph transformation rules. As a result, we obtain a version of this language fully defined as a formal Ontology Pattern Grammar. In other words, this paper presents a formal definition of OntoUML that is both explicit in terms of the ontological patterns that it incorporates and is completely independent of the UML meta-model.

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From reference ontologies to ontology patterns and back

Cited by 48 publications

References 22 publications

Formal Definition of a General Ontology Pattern Language using a Graph Grammar

Formal Definition of a General Ontology Pattern Language using a Graph Grammar

Foundational ontologies, ontology‐driven conceptual modeling, and their multiple benefits to data mining

A Kind of Agricultural Content Networking Information Fusion Method Based on Ontology

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