UML models and ontologies are two knowledge representations with different strengths and
weaknesses. Until recently, they were considered unrelated research domains. However …

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development
process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

Ontologies were developed in Artificial Intelligence to facilitate knowledge sharing and
reuse. Since the beginning of the nineties ontologies have become a popular research topic …

In the last decades, the use of ontologies in information systems has become more and
more popular in various fields, such as web technologies, database integration, multi agent …

Blockchain technology is regarded as highly disruptive, but there is a lack of formalization
and standardization of terminology. Not only because there are several (sometimes …

In this paper, we propose a high level view of technological spaces (TS) and relations
among these spaces. A technological space is a working context with a set of associated …

A method is proposed to derive ontologies of geographical domains from natural language
texts that describe human activities. Through its textual grounding, the method addresses …

Abstract A Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation (PASSI) is a step-
by-step requirement-to-code methodology for designing and develo** multi-agent …

Domain engineering aims to support systematic reuse, focusing on modeling common
knowledge in a problem domain. Ontologies have also been pointed as holding great …