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 …

Modeling resources and capabilities in enterprise architecture: A well-founded ontology-based proposal for ArchiMate

CLB Azevedo, ME Iacob, JPA Almeida… - Information systems, 2015 - Elsevier
The importance of capabilities and resources for portfolio management and business
strategy has been recognized in the management literature. Despite that, little attention has …

[BOOK][B] Enterprise integration and information architecture: A systems perspective on industrial information integration

L Da Xu - 2014 - books.google.com
Enterprise solutions have emerged as promising tools for integrating and extending
business processes across business functions. Supplying a clear and comprehensive …

A commitment-based reference ontology for services

JC Nardi, R de Almeida Falbo, JPA Almeida… - Information systems, 2015 - Elsevier
The concept of “service” has been characterized in different disciplines and by different
authors from various points of view. This variety of characterizations has emerged because …

Towards a commitment-based reference ontology for services

JC Nardi, R de Almeida Falbo… - 2013 17th IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of" service" has been characterized by different disciplines and authors from
various points of view. The variety of characterizations reveals that this notion, although an …

An ontology-based analysis and semantics for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method

PS Santos Jr, JPA Almeida, G Guizzardi - Information Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the issue of ontological analysis for organizational structure modeling
in the ARIS method with the following contributions:(i) an interpretation of the language in …

An ontology-based semantics for the motivation extension to archimate

CLB Azevedo, JPA Almeida… - 2011 IEEE 15th …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The" motivation domain" of an Enterprise Architecture addresses objectives in a broad
scope ranging from high-level statements expressing the goals of an enterprise to …

An ontology-based well-founded proposal for modeling resources and capabilities in ArchiMate

CLB Azevedo, ME Iacob, JPA Almeida… - 2013 17th IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The importance of capabilities and resources for portfolio management and business
strategy has been recognized in the management literature and on a recent proposal to …

An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language

JPA Almeida, G Guizzardi - Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2013 - Elsevier
In our past work, we have shown that a number of theories from conceptual modeling and
ontological analysis can be used to clarify the definitions of role-related and goal-related …

An ontology-based semantic foundation for ARIS EPCs

PS Santos Jr, JPA Almeida, G Guizzardi - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents an ontological analysis of the EPC (Event-driven Process Chain)
business process modeling notation supported in the ARIS Toolset. This ontological …