Formal Ontology and Information Systems
- Nicola Guarino
- Computer Science
- 1998
It is argued in this paper that so-called ontologies present their own methodological and architectural peculiarities: on the methodological side, their main peculiarity is the adoption of a highly interdisciplinary approach, while on the architectural side the most interesting aspect is the centrality of the role they can play in an information system, leading to the perspective of ontology-driven information systems.
Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE
- Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, A. Oltramari, Luc Schneider
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference Knowledge Engineering…
- 1 October 2002
In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive…
An Overview of OntoClean
- Nicola Guarino, Chris Welty
- PhilosophyHandbook on Ontologies
- 2004
This chapter presents an informal overview of the philosophical notions involved and their role in OntoClean, review some common ontological pitfalls, and walk through the example that has appeared in pieces in previous papers and has been the basis of numerous tutorials and talks.
What Is an Ontology?
- Nicola Guarino, D. Oberle, Steffen Staab
- PhilosophyHandbook on Ontologies
- 2009
This paper shall revisit the previous attempts to clarify and formalize such original definition of (computational) ontologies as “explicit specifications of conceptualizations”, providing a detailed account of the notions of conceptualization and explicit specification, while discussing the importance of shared explicit specifications.
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean
- Nicola Guarino, Chris Welty
- PhilosophyCACM
- 1 February 2002
Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong.
Ontologies and Knowledge Bases. Towards a Terminological Clarification
- Nicola Guarino, Stati Uniti, P. Giaretta
- Philosophy
- 1995
It is argued for the need of clear terminological choices regarding the technical use of terms like "ontology", "conceptualization" and "ontological commitment" in the current debate in AI, and the possible confusion between an ontology intended as a particular conceptual framework at the knowledge level and a concrete artifact at the symbol level.
WonderWeb Deliverable D18 Ontology Library
- Claudio Masolo, S. Borgo, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, A. Oltramari
- Computer Science
- 2003
Business Process Management
- G. Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, P. A. Almeida
- BusinessLecture Notes in Computer Science
- 2016
The Power of Keynotes: Don’t Just improve work, Innovate Continuously - think of keynotes as chapters of a book.
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships
- Chris Welty, Nicola Guarino
- Computer ScienceData & Knowledge Engineering
- 1 October 2001
Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation
- Nicola Guarino
- Philosophy, Computer ScienceInt. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
- 1 November 1995
The notion of the ontological level is introduced, intermediate between the epistemological and the conceptual levels discussed by Brachman, as a way to characterize a knowledge representation formalism taking into account the intended meaning of its primitives.
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