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Open AccessA Teleological Approach to Information Systems Design
In recent years, the design and production of information systems have seen significant growth. However, these information artefacts often exhibit characteristics that compromise their reliability. This issue app...
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Open AccessMitochondrial metabolism sustains CD8+ T cell migration for an efficient infiltration into solid tumors
The ability of CD8+ T cells to infiltrate solid tumors and reach cancer cells is associated with improved patient survival and responses to immunotherapy. Thus, identifying the factors controlling T cell migratio...
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Open AccessOntology-based security modeling in ArchiMate
Enterprise Risk Management involves the process of identification, evaluation, treatment, and communication regarding risks throughout the enterprise. To support the tasks associated with this process, several...
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On the Semantics of Risk Propagation
Risk propagation encompasses a plethora of techniques for analyzing how risk “spreads” in a given system. Albeit commonly used in technical literature, the very notion of risk propagation turns out to be a concep...
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Popularity Driven Data Integration
More and more, with the growing focus on large scale analytics, we are confronted with the need of integrating data from multiple sources. The problem is that these data are impossible to reuse as-is. The net res...
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Pattern Discovery in Conceptual Models Using Frequent Itemset Mining
Patterns are recurrent structures that provide key insights for Conceptual Modeling. Typically, patterns emerge from the repeated modeling practice in a given field. However, their discovery, if performed manu...
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Ontological Analysis and Redesign of Security Modeling in ArchiMate
Enterprise Risk Management and security have become a fundamental part of Enterprise Architecture, so several frameworks and modeling languages have been designed to support the activities associated with thes...
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A FAIR Model Catalog for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling Research
Conceptual models are artifacts representing conceptualizations of particular domains. Hence, multi-domain model catalogs serve as empirical sources of knowledge and insights about specific domains, about the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding and Modeling Prevention
Prevention is a pervasive phenomenon. It is about blocking an effect before it happens or stop** it as it unfolds: vaccines prevent (the unfolding of) diseases; seat belts prevent events causing serious inju...
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An Ontology of Security from a Risk Treatment Perspective
In Risk Management, security issues arise from complex relations among objects and agents, their capabilities and vulnerabilities, the events they are involved in, and the value and risk they ensue to the stak...
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How FAIR are Security Core Ontologies? A Systematic Map** Study
Recently, ontology-based approaches to security, in particular to information security, have been recognized as a relevant challenge and as an area of research interest of its own. As the number of ontologies ...
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Mind the Gap!: Learning Missing Constraints from Annotated Conceptual Model Simulations
Conceptual modeling plays a fundamental role to capture information about complex business domains (e.g., finance, healthcare) and enables semantic interoperability. To fulfill their role, conceptual models mu...
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Ranking Schemas by Focus: A Cognitively-Inspired Approach
The main goal of this paper is to evaluate knowledge base schemas, modeled as a set of entity types, each such type being associated with a set of properties, according to their focus. We model the notion of focu...
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Towards Automated Support for Conceptual Model Diagnosis and Repair
Validating and debugging conceptual models is a very time-consuming task. Though separate software tools for model validation and machine learning are available, their integration for an automated support of the ...
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Towards Understanding Classification and Identification
The paper focuses on two pivotal cognitive functions of both natural and AI agents, namely classification and identification. Inspired from the theory of teleosemantics, itself based on neuroscientific results, w...
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Teleologies: Objects, Actions and Functions
We start from the observation that the notion of concept, as it is used in perception, is distinct and different from the notion of concept, as it is used in knowledge representation. In earlier work we called...
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From ER Models to the Entity Model
In this paper, a new knowledge representation formalism, called the entity model, is introduced. This model can be used to address knowledge diversity by making the modeling assumptions of different knowledge rep...
