UFO: Unified foundational ontology

G Guizzardi, A Botti Benevides, CM Fonseca… - Applied …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
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 …

An ontology-based approach to engineering ethicality requirements

R Guizzardi, G Amaral, G Guizzardi… - Software and Systems …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

A FAIR model catalog for ontology-driven conceptual modeling research

PPF Barcelos, TP Sales, M Fumagalli… - … on Conceptual Modeling, 2022 - Springer
Conceptual models are artifacts representing conceptualizations of particular domains.
Hence, multi-domain model catalogs serve as empirical sources of knowledge and insights …

Blockchain-based ontology driven reference framework for security risk management

M Iqbal, A Kormiltsyn, V Dwivedi… - Data & Knowledge …, 2024 - Elsevier
Security risk management (SRM) is crucial for protecting valuable assets from malicious
harm. While blockchain technology has been proposed to mitigate security threats in …

[HTML][HTML] A FAIR catalog of ontology-driven conceptual models

TP Sales, PPF Barcelos, CM Fonseca, IV Souza… - Data & Knowledge …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-domain model catalogs serve as empirical sources of knowledge and insights about
specific domains, about the use of a modeling language's constructs, as well as about the …

Semantics, ontology and explanation

G Guizzardi, N Guarino - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.11124, 2023 - arxiv.org
The terms' semantics' and'ontology'are increasingly appearing together with'explanation',
not only in the scientific literature, but also in organizational communication. However, all of …

[HTML][HTML] Consolidating economic exchange ontologies for financial reporting standard setting

I Blums, H Weigand - Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Several UFO grounded economic exchange ontologies have been developed in the last
decade, notably COFRIS, OntoREA, REA2, and ATE. An important question is whether they …

Abstracting ontology-driven conceptual models: Objects, aspects, events, and their parts

E Romanenko, D Calvanese, G Guizzardi - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Ontology-driven conceptual models are widely used to capture information about complex
and critical domains. Therefore, it is essential for these models to be comprehensible and …

Automated conceptual model clustering: a relator-centric approach

G Guizzardi, TP Sales, JPA Almeida… - Software and Systems …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of reference conceptual models
to capture information about complex and sensitive business domains (eg, finance …

Ontology-driven conceptual modeling as a service

CM Fonseca, TP Sales, V Viola… - CEUR workshop …, 2021 - research.utwente.nl
In the past decades, the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) has played an important role
in supporting the development of ontologies in academic and business settings, being …