Midwinters, end games, and body parts: a classification of part-whole relations
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations: the prospects of mereotopology
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
On the Representation of Quantities and their Parts in Conceptual Modeling
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
From collective intentionality to intentional collectives: An ontological perspective
Cognitive Systems Research
Ontological foundations for conceptual part-whole relations: the case of collectives and their parts
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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In a series of publications, we have employed ontological theories and principles to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling grammars and models. In this article, we continue this work by conducting an ontological analysis to investigate the proper representation of types whose instances are collectives, as well as the representation of a specific part-whole relation involving them, namely, the member-collective relation. As a result, we provide an ontological interpretation for these notions, as well as modeling guidelines for their sound representation in conceptual modeling.