A Common Foundational Theory for Bridging Two Levels in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of Foundational Ontologies, i.e., ontological theories in the philosophical sense to provide real-world semantics and principled modeling guidelines for conceptual domain modeling languages. In this paper, we demonstrate how a philosophically sound and cognitively-oriented ontological theory of objects and moments (property-instances) has been used to: (i) (re)design a system of modeling primitives underlying the conceptual domain modeling language OntoUML; (ii) derive supporting technology for mapping these conceptual domain models to less-expressive computationally-oriented codification languages. In particular, we address here a mapping strategy to OWL (Web Ontology Language) which addresses the issue of temporally changing information.