Ontology Engineering by Combining Ontology Patterns

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_13

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“…Different approaches and tools are available to ground the enterprise-specific ontology in a core ontology. For instance, core ontology patterns can be used to develop or analyze ontologies (Blomqvist 2005;Ruy et al 2015). Other useful tools for ontology engineers are ONTOCLEAN (Guarino and Welty 2002) and OntoUML , which can be used to evaluate the grounding of ontology concepts in the core ontology.…”

Section: Ontology Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Evolution Framework (CMOE+)

Gailly¹,

Alkhaldi

Casteleyn

et al. 2017

Bus Inf Syst Eng

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Abstract. Within an enterprise, various stakeholders create different conceptual models, such as process, data, and requirements models. These models are fundamentally based on similar underlying enterprise (domain) concepts, but they differ in focus, use different modelling languages, take different viewpoints, utilize different terminology, and are used to develop different enterprise artefacts; as such, they typically lack consistency and interoperability. This issue can be solved by enterprise-specific ontologies, which serve as a reference during the conceptual model creation. Using such a shared semantic repository makes conceptual models interoperable and facilitates model integration. The challenge to accomplish this is twofold: on the one hand, an up-to-date enterprise-specific ontology needs to be created and maintained, and on the other hand, different modellers also need to be supported in their use of the enterprise-specific ontology. In this article, we propose to tackle these challenges by means of a recommendation-based conceptual modelling and an ontology evolution framework, and we focus in particular on ontology-based modelling support. To this end, we present our framework for Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) as a conceptual modelling language, and focus on how modellers can be assisted during the modelling process and how this impacts the semantic quality of the resulting models. Subsequently, we present a first, large-scale explorative experiment involving 140 business students to evaluate the BPMN instantiation of our framework. The experiments show promising results with regard to incurred overhead, intention of use and model interoperability.

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Section: Ontology Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Evolution Framework (CMOE+)

Gailly¹,

Alkhaldi

Casteleyn

et al. 2017

Bus Inf Syst Eng

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“…The Core Value Ontology is developed by following the ontology engineering approach proposed by Ruy et al [13]. This approach makes use of ontology design patterns, which describe particular recurring modeling problems that arise in specific ontology development contexts and present a well-proven solution for this problem [2].…”

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“…UFO is useful for creating a Core Value Ontology because it comprises a number of notions that fundamentally explain the notion of value including the notions of goals, capabilities, actions, and intentions. As discussed in [13], the FOPs extracted from UFO are considered as the relevant building blocks for the Core Value Ontology and will be either reused during the development of the Core Value Ontology or will be used to analyze existing DROPs of related core ontologies; 2. Second, a set of DROPs is extracted from related core ontologies and existing enterprise modeling languages.…”

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“…To this end, the goal of this paper is the development of a Core Value Ontology, which is (i) grounded in the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). Furthermore, the development of the ontology will be guided by an engineering approach, which (ii) is explicitly oriented towards supporting reuse by systematically using ontology patterns [13]. Finally, the use of the Core Value Ontology is demonstrated (iii) by applying it on an existing healthcare case.…”

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The Design of a Core Value Ontology Using Ontology Patterns

Gailly

Roelens

Guizzardi

2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The creation of value is an important concern in organizations. However, current Enterprise Modeling languages all interprete value differently, which has a negative impact on the semantic quality of the model instantiations. This issue need to be solved to increase the relevance of these instantiations for business stakeholders. Therefore, the goal of this paper is the development of a sound Core Value Ontology. In order to do that, we employ a pattern-based ontology engineering approach, which employs the Unified Foundational Ontology.

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“…Reuse is considered as a promising approach for Ontology Engineering, since it enables a speeding up of the ontology development process [21].…”

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Towards a Middle-out Approach for Building Legal Domain Reference Ontology

Ghosh¹,

Naja²,

Abdulrab³

et al. 2016

IJKE

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Abstract-This article presents a middle-out approach to build legal domain reference ontology for a Legal Knowledge Based System (LKBS). The proposed approach is a combination of top-down and bottom-up strategies. In particular, we propose to develop legal domain reference ontology, splitted into modules or fragments, based on merging two processes: Conceptual Modeling Process, by reusing foundational ontologies (top-down strategy) and Ontology Learning Process from textual resources (bottom-up strategy).Index Terms-Conceptual modeling, domain reference ontology, legal ontology, modularization, ontology learning.

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Ontology Engineering by Combining Ontology Patterns

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Evolution Framework (CMOE+)

Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Evolution Framework (CMOE+)

The Design of a Core Value Ontology Using Ontology Patterns

Towards a Middle-out Approach for Building Legal Domain Reference Ontology

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