Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events

Guizzardi, Giancarlo; Wagner, Gerd; Falbo, Ricardo A.; Guizzardi, Renata S. S.; Almeida, João Paulo A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_27

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“…To address this challenge, it has been argued that a paradigm shift is required, one that considers the development and operation of an IS as a continuous knowledge-based activity (Yu, 2009) utilizing conceptual modeling (G. Guizzardi, Wagner, Falbo, Guizzardi, & Almeida, 2013) as a way to bring together an understanding of complex enterprise phenomena and an attempt to design IS solutions that support agility and dynamic change. This paradigm shift is based on three principles: (a) Systems thinking that considers independent components that form a unified whole (Kawalek, 2004;Wilby, Macaulay, & Theodoulidis, 2011); (b) Abstract thinking implying that one moves away from the physical manifestation of processes (Hans-Georg Fill, 2014); and (c) Operational thinking that considers the dynamics of a business process and in particular its behavior over time (Sterman, 2000).…”

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Conceptual modeling for the design of intelligent and emergent information systems

Fayoumi

Loucopoulos

2016

Expert Systems with Applications

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Abstract-A key requirement to today's fast changing economic environment is the ability of organizations to adapt dynamically in an effective and efficient manner. Information and Communication Technologies play a crucially important role in addressing such adaptation requirements. The notion of 'intelligent software' has emerged as a means by which enterprises can respond to changes in a reactive manner but also to explore, in a pro-active manner, possibilities for new business models. The development of such software systems demands analysis, design and implementation paradigms that recognize the need for 'co-development' of these systems with enterprise goals, processes and capabilities. The work presented in this paper is motivated by this need and to this end it proposes a paradigm that recognizes co-development as a knowledge-based activity. The proposed solution is based on a multi-perspective modeling approach that involves (i) modeling key aspects of the enterprise, (ii) reasoning about design choices and (iii) supporting strategic decision-making through simulations. The utility of the approach is demonstrated though a case study in the field of marketing for a start-up company.

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Conceptual modeling for the design of intelligent and emergent information systems

Fayoumi

Loucopoulos

2016

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…We intend to integrate these results with our results of [23,26], which addresses capabilities and some motivational concepts for EA. We also intend to interpret new proposed modeling concepts using the Unified Foundational Ontology [27,28], in an effort to have coherent and aligned enterprise models.…”

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Aligning Enterprise Architecture with Strategic Planning

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Sinderen

Pires

et al. 2015

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Strategic planning improves both the financial and behavioral performance of an enterprise. It helps the enterprise set priorities, focus capabilities and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that stakeholders are working toward common goals and assess and adjust the enterprise's direction. Strategic planning is currently not explicitly represented in EA, although it motivates enterprise architecture choices. This paper studies strategic planning approaches and discusses their potential relation with EA. The paper focuses on how EA can contribute to strategic planning, discussing requirements on EA extensions to support strategic planning and pointing to solutions. A general approach to support strategic planning using EA should mutually benefit the practices of strategic planning and EA.

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“…The concepts introduced in previous versions of the models are depicted in gray-shade (same for the next diagrams). This model is inspired in UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) (Guizzardi et al, 2013) that is a formal theory describing some of the general concepts used here, namely Type (Universal) and Category, as well as Object, Event, Action and Situation Types. The model regards mostly types of things 1 since it is meant for modeling, for example, the type of event that is expected as consequence of another one, rather then the particular event that was the consequence of another particular one.…”

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Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines

Zamborlini

Hoekstra

Silveira

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

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Zamborlini, V.; Hoekstra, R.J.; da Silveira, M.; Pruski, C.; ten Teije-Koppen, A.C.M.; van Harmelen, F.A.H. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Zamborlini, V., Hoekstra, R., da Silveira, M., Pruski, C., ten Teije, A., & van Harmelen, F. (2016 General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Abstract: This paper presents a method for formally representing Computer-Interpretable Guidelines to deal with multimorbidity. Although some approaches for merging guidelines exist, improvements are still required for combining several sources of information and coping with possibly conflicting pieces of evidence coming from clinical studies. Our main contribution is twofold: (i) we provide general models and rules for representing guidelines that expresses evidence as causation beliefs; (ii) we introduce a mechanism to exploit external medical knowledge acquired from Linked Open Data (Drugbank, Sider, DIKB) to detect potential interactions between recommendations. We apply this framework to merge three guidelines (Osteoarthritis, Diabetes, and Hypertension) in order to illustrate the capability of this approach for detecting potential conflicts between guidelines and eventually propose alternatives.

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Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events

Cited by 117 publications

References 9 publications

Conceptual modeling for the design of intelligent and emergent information systems

Conceptual modeling for the design of intelligent and emergent information systems

Aligning Enterprise Architecture with Strategic Planning

Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines

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