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 …

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 …

Enterprise ontology is a novel subject, and writing a book on this novel subject puts the
author under the obligation to provide at least two kinds of explanation. One explanation …

The paper presents a framework for introducing design patterns that facilitate or improve the
techniques used during ontology lifecycle. Some distinctions are drawn between kinds of …

This paper describes a long-term research program on develo** ontological foundations
for conceptual modeling. This program, organized around the theoretical background of the …

A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of
people, devices, and software agents. Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed …

I revisit here the motivations and the main proposal of paper I published at the 1994
Wittgenstein Symposium, entitled “The Ontological Level”, in the light of the main results …

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 …

The importance of capabilities and resources for portfolio management and business
strategy has been recognized in the management literature. Despite that, little attention has …

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