An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

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 …

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

We present a comprehensive approach to ontology evaluation and validation, which have
become a crucial problem for the development of semantic technologies. Existing evaluation …

In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a
philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital “O”), and as a domain-independent system …

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 …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational
ontologies, ie, formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, to provide a …

Foundational Ontologies are theoretically well-founded domainindependent systems of
categories that have been successfully used to improve the quality of conceptual modeling …

Ontologies are rapidly becoming popular in various research fields. There is a tendency
both in converting existing models into ontologies and in creating new models. In this work …

Source lines of code (SLOC) is perhaps the oldest of software metrics, and still a benchmark
for evaluating new ones. Despite the extensive experience with the SLOC metric, there are …