Use Case Modeling and Refinement: A Quality-Based Approach
In this paper, we propose a quality-based use case refinement approach. It consists of a step by step refinement...
Ontology with Likeliness and Typicality of Objects in Concepts
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However,...
In Defense of a Trope-Based Ontology for Conceptual Modeling: An Example with the Foundations...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in approaches that employ foundational ontologies as theoretical tools for...
Explicitly Representing Superimposed Information in a Conceptual Model
Superimposed information (SI) refers to new information such as annotations and summaries overlaid on fragments of existing base information...
Preference Functional Dependencies for Managing Choices
The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization...
XBRL Taxonomies and OWL Ontologies for Investment Funds
The analysis of investment funds information requires the availability of homogeneous information of the funds considered, which is usually...
A Semantic Transformation Approach for ISO 15926
Traditional industries anticipate supporting cross-organizational cooperation as applied in the semantic Web and Web services environments. However, the international...
Modeling Considerations for Product Ontology
An issue in utilizing ontology in product information domain is how to make it operational. This requires considering the...
Ontologizing EDI Semantics
Electronic Data Interchange systems are used to transmit business messages in a compact form, with the meaning of message...
WSDL RDF Mapping: Developing Ontologies from Standardized XML Languages
The W3C is working on a Recommendation for Web Services Description Language, based on XML. The Working Group is...
