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 number of applications being developed that require access to knowledge about the
real world has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Domain ontologies, which …

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 …

In the last years, the legal domain has been revolutionized by the use of Information and
Communication Technologies, producing large amount of digital information. Legal …

According to the FAIR guiding principles, one of the central attributes for maximizing the
added value of information artifacts is interoperability. In this paper, I discuss the importance …

Conceptual modeling is an important part of information systems development and use that
involves identifying and representing relevant aspects of reality. Although the past decades …

Both conceptual modeling and machine learning have long been recognized as important
areas of research. With the increasing emphasis on digitizing and processing large amounts …

For over a decade now, a community of researchers has contributed to the development of
the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO)-aimed at providing foundations for all major …

This paper conducts an empirical study that explores the differences between adopting a
traditional conceptual modeling (TCM) technique and an ontology-driven conceptual …

Abstract Types are fundamental for conceptual modeling and knowledge representation,
being an essential construct in all major modeling languages in these fields. Despite that …