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An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language
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This paper provides an ontology-based account for the notion of communities in the reference model's Enterprise Language by addressing issues regarding the composition of communities, the filling of roles in communities, and the decomposition of a community's objective into sub-objectives (delegated to community members).About:
This article is published in Computer Standards & Interfaces.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enterprise systems engineering & Social reality.read more
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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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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.
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Towards 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 +6 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes a commitment- based account of the notion of service captured in a core reference ontology called UFO-S, and shows that the commitment-based account can serve to harmonize different notions of service in the literature.
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An ontology-based analysis and semantics for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the issue of ontological analysis for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method with an interpretation of the language in terms of real-world entities in the UFO foundational ontology, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach.
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Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
TL;DR: The goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems, based on the notion of agent and all related mentalistic notions, formalized in a metamodel described with a set of UML class diagrams.
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
John Mylopoulos,Eric Yu +1 more
TL;DR: This thesis proposes a modelling framework i* (pronounced i-star) consisting of two modelling components: the Strategic Dependency (SD) model and the Strategic Rationale (SR) model, which describes a process in terms of intentional dependency relationships among agents.