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On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling

Authors :
Guizzardi, G.
Herre, Heinrich
Wagner, Gerd
Spaccapietra, Stefano
March, Salvatore T.
Kambayashi, Yahiko
Source :
Conceptual Modeling — ER 2002 ISBN: 9783540442776, ER, Conceptual modeling-ER 2002: proceedings of the 21st Conference, Tampere, Finland, October 7-11, 2002, 65-78, STARTPAGE=65;ENDPAGE=78;TITLE=Conceptual modeling-ER 2002
Publication Year :
2002
Publisher :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002.

Abstract

As pointed out in the pioneering work of [WSW99, EW01], an upper level ontology allows to evaluate the ontological correctness of a conceptual model and to develop guidelines how the constructs of a conceptual modeling language should be used. In this paper we adopt the General Ontological Language (GOL), proposed in [DHHS01], for this purpose. We discuss a number of issues that arise when applying the concepts of GOL to UML class diagrams as a conceptual modeling language. We also compare our ontological analysis of some parts of the UML with the one proposed in [EW01].

Details

ISBN :
978-3-540-44277-6
ISBNs :
9783540442776
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Conceptual Modeling — ER 2002 ISBN: 9783540442776, ER, Conceptual modeling-ER 2002: proceedings of the 21st Conference, Tampere, Finland, October 7-11, 2002, 65-78, STARTPAGE=65;ENDPAGE=78;TITLE=Conceptual modeling-ER 2002
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....b1eaaf45000a01902c2540da58be1413