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Open AccessProcesses as variable embodiments
In a number of papers, Kit Fine introduced a theory of embodiment which distinguishes between rigid and variable embodiments, and has been successfully applied to clarify the ontological nature of entities who...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Pattern Language for Value Modeling in ArchiMate
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in modeling value in the context of Enterprise Architecture, which has been driven by a need to align the vision and strategic goals of an enterprise with its...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Relations in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling
For over a decade now, a community of researchers has contributed to the ontological foundations of Conceptual Modeling by participating to the development of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and the UF...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling Manufacturing Resources: An Ontological Approach
Resource management is at the core of different manufacturing tasks, which need to be seamlessly integrated to optimize production in manufacturing environments. The development of knowledge-based systems led ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Common Ontology of Value and Risk
Risk analysis is traditionally accepted as a complex and critical activity in various contexts, such as strategic planning and software development. Given its complexity, several modeling approaches have been ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reification and Truthmaking Patterns
Reification is a standard technique in conceptual modeling, which consists of including in the domain of discourse entities that may otherwise be hidden or implicit. However, deciding what should be reified is...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Notion of Goal in Business Process Models
Business process modelling languages allow to capture business processes by embracing different paradigms, emphasising different business process elements or characteristics and exploiting different graphical ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Business Process Activity Relationships: Is There Anything Beyond Arrows?
Business process modelling languages enable the depiction of the processes of an organisation by exploiting graphical symbols to denote the key elements to be represented. Despite the variety of approaches, gr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Semantics of Ongoing and Future Occurrence Identifiers
According to the standard wisdom, all temporal occurrences are considered as “frozen in time”. This means that all their properties are fully determined, and they can’t change. This is certainly true for histo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Business Processes and Their Participants: An Ontological Perspective
Business process modelling (BPM) notations, such as BPMN, UML-Activity Diagram (UML-AD), EPC and CMMN describe processes using a graphical representation of process-relevant entities and their interplay. Despi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ontological Considerations About the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models
Different disciplines have been established to deal with the representation of entities of different ontological natures: the business process modeling discipline focuses mostly on event-like entities, and, in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Relationships and Events: Towards a General Theory of Reification and Truthmaking
We propose a novel ontological analysis of relations and relationships based on a re-visitation of a classic problem in the practice of knowledge representation and conceptual modeling, namely relationship reific...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Service Ontology Pattern Language
In this paper we partially present an initial version of an Ontology Pattern Language, called S-OPL, describing the core conceptualization of services as a network of interconnected ontology modeling patterns....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
“We Need to Discuss the Relationship”: Revisiting Relationships as Modeling Constructs
In this paper we propose a novel ontological analysis of relations and relationships based on a re-visitation of a classic problem in the practice of conceptual modeling, namely relationship reification. Despite ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software as a Social Artifact: A Management and Evolution Perspective
For many, software is just code, something intangible best defined in contrast with hardware, but it is not particularly illuminating. Microsoft Word turned 30 last year. During its lifetime it has been the su...
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Chapter
Artefactual Systems, Missing Components and Replaceability
A very important practical concern of modern information systems is to make explicit, for the purpose of mutual understanding and interoperability, people’s assumptions about everyday reality. This is one of t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Open Ontology-Driven Sociotechnical Systems: Transparency as a Key for Business Resiliency
Most business and social organisations can be seen nowadays as complex sociotechnical systems (STSs), including three components: technical artifacts, social artifacts, and humans. Within social artifacts, a spec...
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Service System Approaches
Over the last several years, services science has emerged as an effective means to understand services and the socio-technical systems in which they are deployed. This systemic view requires a genuinely interdisc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Commitment-Based Modeling of Service Systems
This contribution presents an ontological model of services that describes them as complex temporal entities, constituted by interrelations of states, actions and processes, occurring in a wider service system...
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Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective
As a growing number of economic transactions tend to happen in the Web, their legal implications and assumptions need to be made explicit in the proper way, in order to facilitate interoperability across diffe...
