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On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling

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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].

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  1. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  2. Institut für Informatik, University of Leipzig, Germany

    Heinrich Herre

  3. Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), University of Leipzig, Germany

    Heinrich Herre

  4. Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Gerd Wagner

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  1. Database Laboratory, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stefano Spaccapietra

  2. Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA

    Salvatore T. March

  3. Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

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Guizzardi, G., Herre, H., Wagner, G. (2002). On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling. In: Spaccapietra, S., March, S.T., Kambayashi, Y. (eds) Conceptual Modeling — ER 2002. ER 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2503. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45816-6_15

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