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CAISE
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
Abstract. Parthood is a relation of fundamental importance in a number of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics and conceptual modeling. However, one classical probl...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
186
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DLOG
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Essential and Mandatory Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Data Models
A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
Alessandro Artale, C. Maria Keet
130
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OTM
2009
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Positionalism of Relations and Its Consequences for Fact-Oriented Modelling
Natural language-based conceptual modelling as well as the use of diagrams have been essential components of fact-oriented modelling from its inception. However, transforming natur...
C. Maria Keet
LPAR
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Practical Reasoning for Expressive Description Logics
Abstract. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Ex...
Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler, Stephan Tobies