In recent years ontology-based systems engineering has grown significantly. Its raison d'etre
is to use ontologies to improve the systems engineering body of knowledge. Specifically …

The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion of available urban data, and
the need for multidisciplinary analysis and decision making for city sustainability require new …

Abstract The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades
by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy …

Abstract The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) has been used to provide foundations for
the major conceptual modeling constructs. This ontology has led to the OntoUML Ontology …

In a world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pervasive, humans may feel threatened or at
risk by giving up control to machines. In this context, ethicality becomes a major concern to …

The growing number of incidents caused by (mis) using Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a matter
of concern for governments, organisations, and the public. To control the harmful impacts of …

Sustainability should become a key concern in the next generation of engineered systems.
While this expectation is relatively straightforward, the question of how to get there is less …

For over a decade now, a community of researchers has contributed to the ontological
foundations of Conceptual Modeling by participating to the development of the Unified …

Abstract In Risk Management, security issues arise from complex relations among objects
and agents, their capabilities and vulnerabilities, the events they are involved in, and the …

Trust is a key component of relationships in social life. It is commonly argued that trust is the
“glue” that holds families, societies, organizations and companies together. In the literature …