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João Paulo A. Almeida
Researcher at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Publications - 175
Citations - 3026
João Paulo A. Almeida is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ontology (information science) & Ontology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 157 publications receiving 2573 citations. Previous affiliations of João Paulo A. Almeida include Information Technology University & University of Twente.
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Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story
TL;DR: The paper describes the historical context in which UFO was conceived, briefly discusses its stratified organization, and reports on a number of applica- tions of this foundational ontology over more than a decade, namely, the development of the conceptual modeling language OntoUML.
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Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
Giancarlo Guizzardi,Gerd Wagner,Ricardo de Almeida Falbo,Renata S. S. Guizzardi,João Paulo A. Almeida +4 more
TL;DR: A foundational ontology of events termed UFO-B is presented together with its axiomatization in first-order logic and its consistency, validation and possible uses are discussed.
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Transparent dynamic reconfiguration for CORBA
TL;DR: This work proposes a Dynamic Reconfiguration Service for CORBA that allows the reconfiguration of a running system with maximum transparency for both client and server side developers.
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Modeling resources and capabilities in enterprise architecture
Carlos L.B. Azevedo,Maria-Eugenia Iacob,João Paulo A. Almeida,Marten van Sinderen,Luis Ferreira Pires,Giancarlo Guizzardi +5 more
TL;DR: An ontological analysis of the concepts introduced in the ArchiMate framework and language to include capability and resources, focusing in particular on the resource, capability and competence concepts, in terms of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO).
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A commitment-based reference ontology for services
Julio Cesar Nardi,Ricardo de Almeida Falbo,João Paulo A. Almeida,Giancarlo Guizzardi,Luis Ferreira Pires,Marten van Sinderen,Nicola Guarino,Claudenir M. Fonseca +7 more
TL;DR: This paper addresses the commitments established between service providers and customers, and shows how such commitments affect the service lifecycle, and presents a core reference ontology for services called UFO-S, based on the notion of service commitments and claims.