An ontological analysis of the relationship construct in conceptual modeling
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
GOL: toward an axiomatized upper-level ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling
Applied Ontology - Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
The Attractiveness of Foundational Ontologies in Industry
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling
Applied Ontology - Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
An approach for grounding ontologies in raw data using foundational ontology
Information Systems
On the search for a level-agnostic modelling language
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A type-theoretical approach for ontologies: The case of roles
Applied Ontology
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in approaches that employ foundational ontologies as theoretical tools for analyzing and improving conceptual modeling languages. However, some of these approaches do not always make explicit their ontological commitments. This leads to situations where criticisms resulting from the specific ontological choices made by a particular approach are generalized to the enterprise of ontology as a whole. In this paper we discuss an example of such a case involving the BWW approach. First, we make explicit the ontological commitments underlying that approach by relating it to other possible philosophical alternatives. Second, we construct an ontological theory which commits to a different philosophical position. Third, we show how the ontology proposed here can be used to provide real-world semantics and sound modeling guidelines for the modeling constructs of Attributes, Weak Entities and Datatypes. Finally, we compare the ontology proposed here with BWW, thus demonstrating its benefits.