Many business process modeling techniques have been proposed over the last decades,
creating a demand for theory to assist in the comparison and evaluation of these techniques …

Due to the rapidly evolving medical, technological, and technical possibilities, surgical
procedures are becoming more and more complex. On the one hand, this offers an …

This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its
knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described …

Several fields have created ontologies for their subdomains. For example, the biological
sciences have developed extensive ontologies such as the Gene Ontology, which is …

Assessing the quality of conceptual models is key to ensure that conceptual models can be
used effectively as a basis for understanding, agreement and construction of information …

MOTIVATION: The precise and formal specification of surgical interventions is a necessary
requirement for many applications in surgery, including teaching and learning, quality …

Ontologies are formal specifications of shared conceptualizations of a domain. Important
applications of ontologies include distributed knowledge-based systems, such as the …

A multi-agent based fleet maintenance personnel configuration method is proposed to solve
the mission oriented aircraft fleet maintenance personnel configuration problem. The …

A key ingredient in system and organization modeling is modeling business processes that
involve the collaborative participation of different teams within and outside the organization …

Over recent years, many scholars have studied the conceptual modeling of information
systems based on a theory of ontological expressiveness. This theory offers four constructs …