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Conceptual Modeling and Foundational Ontologies

Conceptual Modeling and Foundational Ontologies. Giancarlo Guizzardi ( guizzardi@acm.org ) http://nemo.inf.ufes.br Computer Science Department Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil. Permanent Researchers. Giancarlo Guizzardi (Foundational Ontologies, Conceptual Modeling)

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Conceptual Modeling and Foundational Ontologies

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  1. Conceptual Modeling and Foundational Ontologies Giancarlo Guizzardi (guizzardi@acm.org ) http://nemo.inf.ufes.br Computer Science Department Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil

  2. Permanent Researchers • Giancarlo Guizzardi (Foundational Ontologies, Conceptual Modeling) • João Paulo Andrade Almeida (Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Modeling, Foundations for Enterprise Models) • Renata S.S. Guizzardi (Multi-Agent Modeling, Intentional Analysis, Knowledge Management) • Ricardo Falbo (Ontological Engineering, Ontologies in Software Engineering)

  3. Main International Collaborations LOA (LaboratoryofAppliedOntology)/ISTC/CNR (head: Nicola Guarino) http://www.loa-cnr.it/ OntoMed (Ontologies in Medicine)/IMISE (head: Heinrich Herre) http://www.onto-med.de/

  4. A Software Engineering view… Conceptual Modeling Implementation2 Implementation3 Implementation1

  5. A Software Engineering view… Conceptual Modeling DESIGN Implementation2 Implementation3 Implementation1

  6. …transported to Ontological Engineering Ontology as a Conceptual Model Ontology as Implementation2 (CASL) Ontology as Implementation3 (Alloy, F-Logic…) Ontology as Implementation1 (SHOIN/OWL-DL, DLRUS)

  7. …transported to Ontological Engineering Ontology as a Conceptual Model DESIGN Ontology as Implementation2 (CASL) Ontology as Implementation3 (Alloy, F-Logic…) Ontology as Implementation1 (SHOIN/OWL-DL, DLRUS)

  8. Formal Ontology and Foundational Ontology • Formal Ontology (Husserl): a discipline that deals with formal ontological structures (e.g. theory of parts, theory of wholes, types and instantiation, identity, dependence, unity) which apply to all material domains in reality. • We name a foundational ontology the product of the discipline of formal ontology in philosophy • We need a Foundational Ontology that takes Human Cognition and Linguistic Competence seriously (i.e., a Cognitive Descriptive Ontology)

  9. Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) UFO-C (SOCIAL ASPECTS) (Agents, Intentional States, Goals, Actions, Norms, Social Commitments/Claims, Social Dependency Relations…) UFO-A (STRUCTURAL ASPECTS) (Objects, their types, their parts/wholes, the roles they play, their intrinsic and relational properties Property value spaces…) UFO-B (DYNAMIC ASPECTS) (Events and their parts, Relations between events, Object participation in events, Temporal properties of entities, Time…)

  10. OntoUML: An Ontologically-Well Founded version of UML OntoUML

  11. ATL Transformation Simulation and Visualization Alloy Analyzer + OntoUML visual Plugin

  12. OntoUML • Asides from the Language and the automated tools, the approach provides a number of Methodological Guidelines and Design Patterns for ontologically well-founded conceptual modeling

  13. Growing number of adopters of UFO and OntoUML in the International Community • Semantic Interoperability of Domain Specific Languages (SAP Research, Germany); • Metamodeling Foundations (University of Twente, The Netherlands); • ORM (Object-Role Modeling) 2.0 (International Community) • Rule Verbalization (REWERSE, Europe); • Automatic Generation of Semantically Consistent Schemata (U.S. Department of Defense); • Agent-Based Simulation (BUT at Cottbus, Germany); • Ontological Foundation s for the REA (Resource-Event-Actor) Framework (University of Ghent, Belgium); • Alternative tools for OntoUML (UTwente, U.Ghent)

  14. Ontology-Based Analysis and (Re) Engineering • We have analyzed, (re) engineered, integrated other reference models and tools. Examples include: • ITIL, RM-ODP • ARIS EPC and Organizational Models • TROPOS/i*, AORML • A particularly interesting effort has been the extension of OntoUML to incorporate dynamic notions for the construction of Task Ontologies (E-OntoUML)

  15. E-OntoUML

  16. Exploring alternative mappings… Ontology as a Conceptual Model DESIGN Ontology as Implementation2 (CASL) Ontology as Implementation3 (Alloy, F-Logic…) Ontology as Implementation1 (SHOIN/OWL-DL, DLRUS)

  17. Research Summary • Foundational Ontologies (UFO) • Ontology-Based Analysis, (Re) Engineering and Integration of Modeling Languages and Reference Models • Methodological Aspects of Ontology Engineering (SABiO) • Process Models • Quality Assurance • Ontology Evaluation • Ontology Configuration Management • Ontology Codification • Ontoogy Excavation

  18. Research Summary • Computational Tools for Ontologically-Well Founded Conceptual Models • Ontology-Based Applications • Bioinformatics (Electrocardiogram) • Oil and Gas (cooperation with NP2TEC/UNIRIO) • Software Engineering • Software Process • Software Quality • Software Risks • Software Configuration Management • ... • Organizational Modeling • ITIL, RM-ODP, ARIS, TROPOS/i* • ...

  19. Education • Introduction to Ontologies: Introduction to the field, possible applications, categories of ontologies, existing languages and metodologies, well-known ontologies, Existing Tools • Ontology Engineering: Metodological Aspects, Hands on experience with building ontologies (from Conceptual Model to Codification) • Advanced Topics on Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Representation: Foundational Ontologies, Ontology Design Patterns, Non-Classical Languages for Ontology Codification • Software Engineering • Ontologies in Software Engineering • Knowledge Management • Ontologies for Knowledge Management • Model-Based Development

  20. Cooperation Opportunities… • Ontology Visualization (UFRGS, UFV): OntoUML models tend to get very complex. What kind of visualization techniches can be used to deal with issues such as perspective, granularity, interactive manipulation in large conceptual models? • Automatic Support for Ontology Engineering taking advantage of specific characteristics of OntoUML: • NLP for basic structure extraction (PUC-RS) • Collaborative Construction of OntoUML models (PONTOPESC/UFRJ, GRECO/UFRJ, LEC/UFSC) • Domain-Specific Ontologies: Eletrocardiology (UFJF), Software Engineering (UFV) • Methodological Aspects for Ontology Engineering (LEC/UFSC) • ...

  21. http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/gguizzardi@inf.ufes.br

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