The expanding scope of systems tackled by process engineering and the increasing interest in different scales of systems require process modeling tools to be generic and extensible. These requirements are addressed in this work by employing ontologies in two different modeling phases. Firstly, a domain ontology providing a conceptualization of process systems is used by a conceptual modeling to...

Currently, the use of technologies in organizations is a key feature in automating business processes. On the other hand, the conceptual modeling of information systems is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction. However, at present, the modeling of business technologies has not been given at a conceptual modeling level. Therefore, in this paper an...

Information Systems (IS) should be based on consistent representations of the reality. Poor modeling results in problems throughout the IS development. Ontologies are key instruments for the improvement of conceptual modeling since they are able to provide well-defined semantics. This paper discusses the application of foundational ontologies in conceptual modeling, presenting partial results o...

Psychology and cognitive science show that human concepts possess particular structures (conceptual structures). However, in process of ontology modeling information concerning the structure of human concepts is lost. In ontologies concepts are typically represented as undifferentiated clusters of necessary (and sufficient) conditions. The lack of representation of conceptual structure may caus...

Multiperspectives naturally arise out of co-operative work in applying appropriate technologies to construct different parts of an application. The representation styles of various perspectives can be highly heterogeneous and open-ended since those perspectives should be presented in a form appropriate to each participant in the software development process. This makes it difficult to provide c...

| The Behavior Network Model (BNM) for conceptual information modeling is described. A BNM description speciies both the static and dynamic aspects of an application. Static aspect modeling describes the structural properties of real world objects and their structural relationships. The dynamic aspect is modeled by processes and their interfaces. BNM allows formal analysis of model descriptions...

Understanding the process of categorization is a primary research goal in artificial intelligence. The conceptual space framework provides a flexible approach to modeling context-sensitive categorization via a geometrical representation designed for modeling and managing concepts. In this paper we show how algorithms developed in computational geometry, and the Region Connection Calculus can be...

Today, conceptual models are intensively used in the information systems discipline. They can support the development and adaptation of software systems as well as the (re-)design of organizations. As conceptual models change during their lifetime, there is a need to manage different version of models. Thus in the past years, findings in software configuration management has been transferred to...

The multidimensional (MD) modeling, which is the foundation of data warehouses (DWs), MD databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications, is based on several properties different from those in traditional database modeling. In the past few years, there have been some proposals, providing their own formal and graphical notations, for representing the main MD properties at the co...

In his article entitled “On Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling” (henceforth OFCM), Boris Wyssusek reviews several approaches that have the common objective of investigating how results from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science, semiotics and linguistics can be employed in the construction of a well-founded theoretical basis for the discipline of conceptual ...