{"title":"Processes Endure, Whereas Events Occur","authors":"G. Kassel","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-177","url":null,"abstract":". In this essay, we aim to help clarify the nature of so-called 'occurrences' by attributing distinct modes of existence and persistence to processes and events . In doing so, we break with the perdurantism claimed by DOLCE’s authors and we distance ourselves from mereological analyzes like those recently conducted by Guarino to distinguish between 'processes' and 'episodes'. In line with the works of Stout and Galton, we first bring closer (physical) processes and objects in their way of enduring by proposing for processes a notion of dynamic presence (contrasting with a static presence for objects). Then, on the events side, we attribute to them the status of abstract entities by identifying them with objects of thought (by individual and collective subjects), and this allows us to distinguish for themselves between existence and occurrence . We therefore identify them with psychological (or even social) endurants, which may contingently occur.","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133136717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ontology, Language, Meaning: Semiotic Steps Beyond the Information Artifact","authors":"J. Bateman","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129407592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence Within the Bounds of Ontological Reason","authors":"A. Oltramari","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128381400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Artale, Diego Calvanese, M. Montali, Wil M.P. van der Aalst
{"title":"Enriching Data Models with Behavioral Constraints","authors":"A. Artale, Diego Calvanese, M. Montali, Wil M.P. van der Aalst","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-257","url":null,"abstract":"Existing process modeling notations ranging from Petri nets to BPMN have difficulties capturing the essential features of the domain under study. Process models often focus on the control flow, lacking an explicit, conceptually well-founded integration with real data models, such as ER diagrams or UML class diagrams. In addition, they essentially rely on the simplifying assumption that each process model focuses on a single, explicitly defined notion of case, representing the type of objects that are separately manipulated when the process is instantiated into actual executions. To overcome this key limitation, ObjectCentric Behavioural Constraints (OCBC) models were recently proposed as a new notation where data and control-flow are described in a single diagram, and where their interconnection is exploited to elegantly capture real-life processes operating over a complex network of objects. In this paper, we illustrate the essential and distinctive features of the OCBC approach, and contrast OCBC with contemporary, case-centric notations. We then relate the approach to recent developments in the conceptual understanding of processes, events, and their constituents, introducing a series of challenges and points of reflections for the community.","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127564133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing the Formal Revolution in Applied Ontology: The Impact of Nicola Guarino","authors":"L. Obrst","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134138875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking It to the Next Level: Nicola Guarino, Formal Ontology and Conceptual Modeling","authors":"G. Guizzardi, J. Mylopoulos","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-223","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is dedicated to Nicola Guarino, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Nicola has made seminal contributions to Conceptual Modeling that include some of the greatest advances in this field of research over the past thirty years. Nicola’s contributions include OntoClean [26, 27], proposed jointly with Chris Welty, the first proposal of formal ontological analysis. This work has been widely cited, but is also used in academic and industrial settings around the world, thus having had tremendous impact. One of the OntoClean papers has had more than 1,000 citations (Google Scholar, October 2018) and won an “Thomson-ISI recognition of an \"Emerging Research Front\" award in 2004. Another seminal contribution of Guarino’s research is his work on the DOLCE foundational ontology, which has also had broad and deep impact in the field [59, 60, 42, 51, 43]. But by far his most significant contribution lies in his critique of conceptual modelling and knowledge representation languages for being ontologically neutral. Instead, he has argued convincingly that such languages should make commitments for the primitive concepts they offer on their ontological properties concerning existence, dependence, identity and rigidity. Such commitments reduce the space of possible interpretations for conceptual models and align them more closely to modeller intentions. This view that Conceptual Modeling Languages should break with ontological neutrality by committing to a suitable ontological theory strongly influenced the design of a next-generation of conceptual modeling approaches such as, for example, OntoUML [29, 38, 31]. The main objective of this paper is to present some of Nicola’s contributions and highlight their importance to Conceptual Modeling. To do so, we begin with an account of what is Conceptual Modelling (section 2), followed by the essential elements of the ontological framework proposed by Nicola (section 3). In section 4, we present the no-","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126471438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a New Foundational Ontology of Properties, Attributives and Data","authors":"H. Herre","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-955-3-194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395854,"journal":{"name":"Ontology Makes Sense","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133079841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}