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An Approach for Systematic Definitions Construction Based on Ontological Analysis

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Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2017)

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This research motivation is to find a way to minimize the distance between business concepts and their respective representations in Information Technology artifacts, specially conceptual models. This distance leads to inconsistencies, ambiguities and implementation issues. Our approach is based on ontological analysis, which considers each concept according to its nature, capturing more precisely its essence and generally improving semantic richness and precision. Our main goal is to help in the process of systematic concepts definitions construction, contributing to generate more consistent definitions and associated conceptual modeling artifacts. The foundational ontology used as a theoretical reference is the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) which has been, in the last decade, successfully used to evaluate conceptual modeling languages and representations.

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  1. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Patricia Merlim Lima Scheidegger & Maria Luiza Machado Campos

  2. Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Maria Cláudia Cavalcanti

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  1. Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

  3. Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

    Rania Siatri

  4. American Farm School, Thessanloniki, Greece

    Damiana Koutsomiha

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Scheidegger, P.M.L., Campos, M.L.M., Cavalcanti, M.C. (2017). An Approach for Systematic Definitions Construction Based on Ontological Analysis. In: Garoufallou, E., Virkus, S., Siatri, R., Koutsomiha, D. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70863-8_9

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