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In his investigation of the correspondences of terminology in the metamodelling and the ontology subdisciplines, Henderson-Sellers (2011b) concludes, as here, that there is a correspondence between a domain-specific ontology and the method domain in Fig. 1.10 (roughly OMG layer M2 in the architecture of Fig. 1.9). This ontology must be represented by a language, where this language may itself be defined by a metamodel (OMG M2 or ISO Metamodel Domain). This is named, variously, meta-ontology, ontology specification language, foundational ontology or higher level ontology (see Fig. 5.7 and previous discussion). Such a language provides reasoning support not possible in software modelling languages such as UML or ER, which many researchers are tempted to use and/or extend for this purpose.
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We have already excluded concrete syntax (notation) as a necessary part of a language—in contradiction to the assumption made by Kühne (2006a).
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Possibly based on a statement such as ‘bank is a kind of noun’ being interpreted as a generalisation relationship.
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In various publications, Customer is sometimes a mixin type and sometimes a role type.
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‘Can play the role of’ is materialised as an existential dependence relation at the instance level.
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Henderson-Sellers, B. (2012). Linking Models, Metamodels, Ontologies and Modelling Languages. In: On the Mathematics of Modelling, Metamodelling, Ontologies and Modelling Languages. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29825-7_7
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