Coloured Petri Nets: a high level language for system design and analysis
APN 90 Proceedings on Advances in Petri nets 1990
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Integrated process modeling: an ontological evaluation
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
Towards a standard upper ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
AI Magazine
Toward Formalizing Domain Modeling Semantics in Language Syntax
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Ontology based object-oriented domain modelling: fundamental concepts
Requirements Engineering
When and how to develop domain-specific languages
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A unified modelling language without referential redundancy
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Models for semantic interoperability in service-oriented architectures
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Interoperable language and model management using the UEML approach
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Towards a semantic infrastructure supporting model-based tool integration
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Global integrated model management
Candidate interoperability standards: An ontological overlap analysis
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Toward a formal research framework for ontological analyses
Advanced Engineering Informatics
The 2006 Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communiqué
Applied Ontology
Metamodel Matching for Automatic Model Transformation Generation
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Business Process and Business Rule Modeling: A Representational Analysis
EDOCW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Eleventh International IEEE EDOC Conference Workshop
Sometimes Less is More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex?
EDOCW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Eleventh International IEEE EDOC Conference Workshop
A generic framework for comparing semantic similarities on a subsumption hierarchy
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Usability of upper level ontologies: The case of ResearchCyc
Data & Knowledge Engineering
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Automatic Ontology Matching via Upper Ontologies: A Systematic Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Similarity of business process models: Metrics and evaluation
Information Systems
Lifting metamodels to ontologies: a step to the semantic integration of modeling languages
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Ontological metamodeling with explicit instantiation
SLE'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Software Language Engineering
A survey of schema-based matching approaches
Journal on Data Semantics IV
An ontology for enterprise and information systems modelling
Applied Ontology
An ontology for enterprise and information systems modelling
Applied Ontology
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Ontological analysis of modelling languages has been mainly used for evaluating quality of modelling language w.r.t. one specific upper ontology. Generally speaking this evaluation has been done by identifying the coverage of the modelling language constructs w.r.t. the ontology and vice-versa. However, a quite limited support has been developed for performing the ontological analysis task. Specifically, various ontologies used for ontological analysis are not associated to a machine readable format; the coverage of modelling language constructs is mostly provided by informal tables mapping one construct on to one ontological concept; the way in which this coverage task is undertaken is poorly specified (resulting in distinct results for distinct experts involved), and finally, preventing any ontology enrichment for dealing with some specialised language constructs. This limited support also prevents application of ontological analysis outcomes to problems and domains dealing with interoperability, integration and integrated usage of enterprise and IS models, which is today one of the key aspects for making interoperable, maintainable and evolvable inter and intra enterprise software systems. The paper provides an overview of the Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) approach, which introduces advanced support to ontological analysis of modelling languages. The paper is specifically focused on the task of ontological analysis of modelling languages (named incorporation of modelling languages) by introducing and explaining several guidelines and rules for driving the task: therefore, not all the aspects of the UEML approach will be discussed through the paper. The guidelines and rules are illustrated by incorporation of three selected modelling constructs from IDEF3, a well known language for specifying enterprise processes.