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Mar 2012
‘System Components’ as a litmus test for your ontological architecture
Presented at Ontology Summit 2012, Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering theme, Tracks 1 & 2 - Session 11, 22 March 2012
Nov 2002
A new foundation for accounting: Steps towards the development of a reference ontology for accounting
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 23/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
Aug 2011
A Novel Ontological Approach to Semantic Interoperability between Legacy Air Defense Command and Control Systems
Published in IJIDSS, International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, Vol. 4, No.3 pp. 232 – 262, 2011
Nov 2013
A Robust Common Master Data Foundation for Oil and Gas
Presented at ED&BI 2013, Conference Europe, 4-6 November 2013, London, UK
Oct 2001
A Synthesis of State of the Art Enterprise Ontologies: Work in Progress
Presented at 10th OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics 2001, colocated with OOPSLA 2001, 14–18 October 2001, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
Sept 2013
Air Control Means: An ‘improving precision’ case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jan 2008
An Introduction to Ontology
Presented at Tutorial - Integrated EA 2008, February, 2008, London, UK
Jan 2005
An Ontological Approach for Recovering Legacy Business Content
Presented at HICSS 2005, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
Nov 2013
Are Conceptual Models Concept Models?
Presented at ER 2013, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 11-13 November 2013, Hong Kong
May 2016
BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology
Published in Journal of Information Systems 30, Number 2, 83-112
Jun 2016
BORO Foundational Ontology's Meta-ontological Choices
Presented at Onto.Com 2016, co-located with FOIS 2016, 6-9 June 2016, Annecy, France
Sept 2013
BORO introduction: The industrial application of ontology: Driven by a foundational ontology
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
BORO-related standards overview
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jun 2005
Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use - 2nd Edition
Published in 2005. Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use. The BORO Centre
Dec 1995
Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use - 1st Edition
Published in 1996. Business Objects: Re - Engineering for Re - Use. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford
Jul 2007
Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems
Presented at Ontolog Mini-Series, Database And Ontology - Session 9, 5 July 2007
Dec 2006
Enterprise Data Modelling: Developing an Ontology-Based Framework for the Shell Downstream Business
Presented at FOMI 2006, Second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop, 14-15 December 2006, Trento, Italy
Apr 2016
Formalization of the classification pattern: survey of classification modeling in information systems engineering
Published in 2016. Formalization of the classification pattern: survey of classification modeling in information systems engineering. Software & Systems Modeling 1-37
Sept 2013
Foundations of accounting: A paradigm shift case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Nov 2013
Geospatial and temporal reference: A case study illustrating (radical) refactoring
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jun 2012
Introduction to MODEM: Building a Semantic Foundation for EA: Reengineering the MODAF™ Meta-Model Based on the IDEAS Foundation
Presented at MODEM Meeting, UK Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall, 21 June 2012, London, UK
Sept 2013
MODEM - Behaviour: A ‘structural constraints’ case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jun 2015
NORSOK Z-014: A 21st Century Update
Presented at AACE 2015, Annual meeting, 28 June - 1 July 2015, Las Vegas, USA
Jun 2002
Note: A couple of meta-ontological choices for ontological architectures
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 06/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy
Sept 2013
Ontology - Introduction: The Industrial Application of Ontology: Driven by a foundational ontology
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Feb 2012
Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering
Presented at Ontology Summit 2012, Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering theme - Session 04, 2 February 2012
Jun 2011
Ontology Mining versus Ontology Speculation
Presented at Keynote - ODISE III 2011, 3rd International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering, colocated with CAiSE 2011, 20-24 June 2011, London, UK
Jun 2013
Ontology-Driven Re-engineering of Business Systems
Presented at Tutorial - CAiSE 2013, 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 17-21 June 2013, Valencia, Spain
Jun 2013
Re-engineering Data with 4D Ontologies and Graph Databases
Published in 2013. Re-engineering data with 4D ontologies and graph databases. In Proceedings of the workshops of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, X. FRANCH AND P. SOFFER, Eds. Springer, 304-316
Dec 2004
Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems
Published in 2005. Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems. In Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 2004. Oslo, Norway, June 14-18, 2004, J. MALENFANT AND B.M. ØSTVOLD, Eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 62-66
Aug 2011
Semantic Modernisation: Layering, Harvesting and Interoperability
Presented at NATO Symposium IST-101 / RSY-024, Semantic and Domain-based Interoperability, November 2011, Oslo, Norway
Jun 2004
Setting the Scene: 42 Objects Business Ontology Based Software Development
Presented at Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems, colocated with ECOOP 2004, 14-18 June 2004, Oslo, Norway
Mar 2003
Shifting the ontological foundations of accounting’s conceptual scheme
Presented at ECAIS 2003, Sixth European Conference on Accounting Information Systems, 1 April 2003, Seville, Spain
Oct 2003
Software Stability: Recovering General Patterns of Business
Presented at UML 2003, 6th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, 20 October 2003, San Francisco, California, USA
Nov 2002
STPO: The synthesis of a TOVE Persons Ontology
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 24/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
Apr 2002
Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology
Presented at ICEIMT 2002, Third International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology, 24-26 April 2002, Valencia, Spain
Nov 2002
The CEO Project: An Introduction
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 07/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
May 2009
The Challenge of Epistemic Divergence in IS Development
Published in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, No. 6. p. 127, June 2009
Dec 2001
The Role of Ontology in Integrating Semantically Heterogeneous Databases
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 05/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy
Nov 2002
The Role of Ontology in Semantic Integration
Presented at SoEI 2002, 2nd Workshop on the Semantics of Enterprise Integration, colocated with OOPSLA 2002, 4–8 November 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
Sept 2013
Top ontology(ies);: why bother?
Presented at Keynote - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Nov 2002
What is a customer?: The beginnings of a reference ontology for customer
Presented at 11th OOPSLA Workshop on behavioral semantics, colocated with OOPSLA 2002, 4-8 November 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
Feb 2011
What is a service?
Presented at Integrated EA 2011, 1-2 March 2011, London, UK
May 2002
What is Pump Facility PF101?: A Study in Ontology
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 04/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy