An Ontologically Well-Founded Profile for UML Conceptual Models

UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a
conceptual model of a domain. In a series of papers we have been using
the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level
ontology to evaluate the ontological correctness of a
conceptual UML class model and to develop guidelines for how the constructs
of the UML should be used in conceptual modeling. In this paper, we focus on
the UML metaconcepts of classes and objects from an ontological point of
view. We use a philosophically and psychologically well-founded theory of
classifiers to propose a UML profile for Ontology Representation and
Conceptual Modeling. Moreover, we propose a design pattern based on this
profile to target a recurrent problem in role modeling discussed in the literature.
Finally, we demonstrate the relevance of the tools proposed by applying them
to solve recurrent problems in the practice of conceptual modeling.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Giancarlo Guizzardi
Gerd Wagner
Nicola Guarino
Marten van Sinderen
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin , Germania
Source: 
Lecture notes in computer science 2577 (2004): 29–38.
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Date: 
2004
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/47051
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Nicola Guarino
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