OntoUML
| Year started | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Organization | Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) |
| Base standards | Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) |
| Related standards | UML |
| Domain | Conceptual Modeling |
| Website | nemo |
OntoUML is an ontologically a language for Ontology-driven Conceptual Modeling. OntoUML is built as a UML extension based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). The foundations of UFO and OntoUML can be traced back to Giancarlo Guizzardi's Ph.D. thesis "Ontological foundations for structural conceptual models".[1] In his work, he proposed a novel foundational ontology for conceptual modeling (UFO) and employed it to evaluate and re-design a fragment of the UML 2.0 metamodel for the purposes of conceptual modeling and domain ontology engineering.
Supporting tools
In 2006, Guizzardi co-founded the Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)[2] located at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitória city, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil . Since then, NEMO has been responsible for most of the developments in OntoUML.
Several papers about ontologies and OntoUML have been authored by members of the NEMO group.[3]
References
- ↑ Guizzardi, Giancarlo (2005). "Ontological foundations for structural conceptual models". University of Twente Research Information (Enschede: Telematica Instituut Fundamental Research Series). http://doc.utwente.nl/50826/1/thesis_Guizzardi.pdf.
- ↑ "Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)". http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/.
- ↑ "NEMO publications". http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/publications/.
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