Giancarlo Guizzardi

TL;DR: In this article, the ontology proposed in this paper can be used to provide real-world semantics and sound modeling guidelines for the modeling constructs of Attributes, Weak Entities and Datatypes.

TL;DR: This paper examines alternative accounts for powertype instances and concludes that the latter is the most promising account for an ontological interpretation of this phenomenon that meets the modelling desiderata for powertypes present in the literature.

TL;DR: This paper intends to clarify the main notions involved in RRT, establishing an explicit common conceptualization regarding this domain, and presents three related domain ontologies: the Software Ontology, an ontology about software nature and execution, the Reference Software Requirements Ontology (RSRO), which addresses what requirements are and types of requirements, and the Runtime Requirements Ontological (RRO) which extends SwO and RSRO to represent the nature and context of RRT.

TL;DR: This paper presents the latest developments in the UFO ontology and elaborate on the relevance of these foundational ontologies in the development of domain ontologies by showing a case study in the software process domain.

TL;DR: This paper presents an initial version of the Enterprise Ontology Pattern Language (E-OPL), and shows how it was used for building an enterprise ontology for a specific domain.