“…The best-known originate from the analysis of REA in the light of Sowa's foundational ontology (Sowa, 2000), with one further study that supplements Sowa's ontology with abstraction mechanisms in REA (Geerts and McCarthy, 2000b, 2005, 2006Sowa, 2000). A number of authors have formalised REA to make it computer-readable, whilst numerous others have tried to find the best definitions for REA concepts that most help the human endeavour in applying REA (Gailly and Geerts, 2013;Gailly, Laurier and Poels, 2008;Ito and Vymětal, 2013;Jaquet, 2006;Laurier and Poels, 2014;McCarthy, Geerts and Gal, 2016a,b;Zdravkovic, Zikra and Ilayperuma, 2011).…”