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On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling

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Giancarlo Guizzardi,

Heinrich Herre,

Gerd WagnerAuthors Info & Claims

ER '02: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

Pages 65 - 78

Published: 07 October 2002 Publication History

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As pointed out in the pioneering work of [WSW99, EW01], an upper level ontology allows to evaluate the ontological correctness of a conceptual model and to develop guidelines how the constructs of a conceptual modeling language should be used. In this paper we adopt the General Ontological Language (GOL), proposed in [DHHS01], for this purpose. We discuss a number of issues that arise when applying the concepts of GOL to UML class diagrams as a conceptual modeling language. We also compare our ontological analysis of some parts of the UML with the one proposed in [EW01].

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