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2020 – today
- 2024
[j26]Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino:
Explanation, semantics, and ontology. Data Knowl. Eng. 153: 102325 (2024)- 2023
- [i4]Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino:
Semantics, Ontology and Explanation. CoRR abs/2304.11124 (2023) - [i3]Stefano Borgo
, Roberta Ferrario, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laure Vieu:
DOLCE: A Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering. CoRR abs/2308.01597 (2023) - 2022
- [j25]Stefano Borgo, Roberta Ferrario, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laure Vieu:
DOLCE: A descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering. Appl. Ontology 17(1): 45-69 (2022) - [j24]Nicola Guarino, Riccardo Baratella, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
Events, their names, and their synchronic structure. Appl. Ontology 17(2): 249-283 (2022) - 2020
- [c77]Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Tiago Prince Sales, Glenda C. M. Amaral, Nicola Guarino:
An Ontological Account of the Action Theory of Economic Exchanges (full paper). VMBO 2020: 157-169 - [c76]Glenda C. M. Amaral, Tiago Prince Sales, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Daniele Porello, Nicola Guarino:
Towards a Reference Ontology of Money: Monetary Objects, Currencies and Related Concepts (short paper). VMBO 2020: 170-178
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c75]Tiago Prince Sales, Ben Roelens, Geert Poels, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, John Mylopoulos:
A Pattern Language for Value Modeling in ArchiMate. CAiSE 2019: 230-245 - [c74]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
On the Philosophical Foundations of Conceptual Models. EJC 2019: 1-15 - [c73]Claudenir M. Fonseca, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi, João Paulo A. Almeida, Nicola Guarino:
Relations in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling. ER 2019: 28-42 - [c72]Nicola Guarino, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
On Weak Truthmaking. JOWO 2019 - [c71]Nicola Guarino, Emilio M. Sanfilippo:
Characterizing IOF Terms with the DOLCE and UFO Ontologies. JOWO 2019 - [c70]Glenda C. M. Amaral, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, Daniele Porello, Tiago Prince Sales:
Capability Agreements and Risk. VMBO 2019 - 2018
- [c69]Greta Adamo, Stefano Borgo, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Nicola Guarino:
On the Notion of Goal in Business Process Models. AI*IA 2018: 139-151 - [c68]Greta Adamo, Stefano Borgo, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Nicola Guarino, Emilio M. Sanfilippo:
Business Process Activity Relationships: Is There Anything Beyond Arrows? BPM (Forum) 2018: 53-70 - [c67]Tiago Prince Sales, Fernanda Baião, Giancarlo Guizzardi, João Paulo A. Almeida, Nicola Guarino, John Mylopoulos:
The Common Ontology of Value and Risk. ER 2018: 121-135 - [c66]Nicola Guarino, Tiago Prince Sales, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
Reification and Truthmaking Patterns. ER 2018: 151-165 - [c65]Tiago Prince Sales, Daniele Porello, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
Ontological Foundations of Competition. FOIS 2018: 96-109 - [c64]Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Sergio Benavent, Stefano Borgo, Nicola Guarino, Nicolas Troquard, Fernando Romero, Pedro Rosado, Lorenzo Solano, Farouk Belkadi, Alain Bernard:
Modeling Manufacturing Resources: An Ontological Approach. PLM 2018: 304-313 - [c63]Tiago Prince Sales, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
Towards an Ontology of Competition. VMBO 2018: 64-73 - [c62]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Tiago Prince Sales:
On the Ontological Nature of REA Core Relations. VMBO 2018: 89-98 - 2017
- [c61]Greta Adamo, Stefano Borgo, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Nicola Guarino, Emilio M. Sanfilippo:
Business Processes and Their Participants: An Ontological Perspective. AI*IA 2017: 215-228 - [c60]Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Stefano Borgo, Nicola Guarino:
Urban Artefacts and Their Social Roles: Towards an Ontology of Social Practices. COSIT 2017: 6:1-6:13 - [c59]Nicola Guarino:
Services as Activities: Towards a Unified Definition for (Public) Services. EDOC Workshops 2017: 102-105 - [c58]Tiago Prince Sales, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
An Ontological Analysis of Value Propositions. EDOC 2017: 184-193 - [c57]Nicola Guarino:
On the Semantics of Ongoing and Future Occurrence Identifiers. ER 2017: 477-490 - [c56]Greta Adamo, Stefano Borgo, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Nicola Guarino, Emilio M. Sanfilippo:
Business Process Languages: An Ontology-Based Perspective. JOWO 2017 - 2016
- [j23]Julio Cesar Nardi, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, João Paulo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten J. van Sinderen, Nicola Guarino, Claudenir Morais Fonseca:
Corrigendum to "A commitment-based reference ontology for services" [IS 54C (2015) 263-288]. Inf. Syst. 56: 133-134 (2016) - [c55]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
Relationships and Events: Towards a General Theory of Reification and Truthmaking. AI*IA 2016: 237-249 - [c54]Antonella Longo, Marco Zappatore, Mario A. Bochicchio, Barbara Livieri, Nicola Guarino, Daniele Napoleone:
Cloud for Europe: The Experience of a Tenderer. AINA Workshops 2016: 153-158 - [c53]Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, João Paulo A. Almeida:
Ontological Considerations About the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models. BPM 2016: 20-36 - [c52]Birger Andersson, Nicola Guarino, Paul Johannesson, Barbara Livieri:
Towards an Ontology of Value Ascription. FOIS 2016: 331-344 - [c51]Xiaowei Wang, John Mylopoulos, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino:
How software changes the world: The role of assumptions. RCIS 2016: 1-12 - [c50]Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, Glaice Kelly Quirino, Julio Cesar Nardi, Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, Antonella Longo, Barbara Livieri:
An ontology pattern language for service modeling. SAC 2016: 321-326 - [c49]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
On the Reification of Relationships. SEBD 2016: 350-357 - 2015
- [j22]Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen:
Applied ontology: The next decade begins. Appl. Ontology 10(1): 1-4 (2015) - [j21]Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen:
Ten years of Applied Ontology. Appl. Ontology 10(3-4): 169-170 (2015) - [j20]Julio Cesar Nardi, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, João Paulo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen, Nicola Guarino, Claudenir Morais Fonseca:
A commitment-based reference ontology for services. Inf. Syst. 54: 263-288 (2015) - [c48]Nicola Guarino, Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone:
On the Ontological Status of Design Objects. AIDE@AI*IA 2015: 27-32 - [c47]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
"We Need to Discuss the Relationship": Revisiting Relationships as Modeling Constructs. CAiSE 2015: 279-294 - [c46]Glaice Kelly Quirino, Julio Cesar Nardi, Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, Mario A. Bochicchio, Antonella Longo, Marco Salvatore Zappatore, Barbara Livieri:
Towards a Service Ontology Pattern Language. ER 2015: 187-195 - [c45]Barbara Livieri, Nicola Guarino, Marco Zappatore, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Mario A. Bochicchio, Antonella Longo, Julio Cesar Nardi, Glaice Kelly Quirino, Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo:
Ontology-based Modeling of Cloud Services: Challenges and Perspectives. PoEM (Short Papers) 2015: 61-70 - [c44]Giancarlo Guizzardi, João Paulo Andrade Almeida, Nicola Guarino, Victorio Albani de Carvalho:
Towards an Ontological Analysis of Powertypes. JOWO@IJCAI 2015 - [c43]Mario A. Bochicchio, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Barbara Livieri, Lucia Vaira, Nicola Guarino, Antonella Longo, Marco Zappatore:
Modeling Service Dynamics: a Case Study. SEBD 2015: 327-334 - 2014
- [c42]Xiaowei Wang, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
Software as a Social Artifact: A Management and Evolution Perspective. ER 2014: 321-334 - [c41]Nicola Guarino:
Ontological analysis and conceptual modeling: achievements and perspectives. FOIS 2014: 5 - [c40]Xiaowei Wang, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos:
Towards an Ontology of Software: a Requirements Engineering Perspective. FOIS 2014: 317-329 - 2013
- [c39]Julio Cesar Nardi, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, João Paulo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen, Nicola Guarino:
Towards a Commitment-Based Reference Ontology for Services. EDOC 2013: 175-184 - [c38]Isabella Distinto, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo:
A well-founded ontological framework for modeling personal income tax. ICAIL 2013: 33-42 - [c37]Nicola Guarino:
Local Qualities, Quality Fields, and Quality Patterns: A Preliminary Investigation. SHAPES 2013: 75-81 - 2012
- [j19]Todd Schneider, Ali Hashemi, Mike Bennett, Mary Brady, Cory Casanave, Henson Graves, Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Anatoly Levenchuk, Ernie Lucier, Leo Obrst, Steve Ray, Ram D. Sriram, Amanda Vizedom, Matthew West, Trish Whetzel, Peter Yim:
Ontology for Big Systems: The Ontology Summit 2012 Communiqué. Appl. Ontology 7(3): 357-371 (2012) - [c36]Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino:
Commitment-Based Modeling of Service Systems. IESS 2012: 170-185 - [p5]Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Romano Trampus, Ken Laskey, Alan Hartman, G. R. Gangadharan:
Service System Approaches - Conceptual Modeling Approaches for Services Science. Handbook of Service Description 2012: 75-109 - 2011
- [j18]Fabian Neuhaus, Elizabeth Florescu, Antony Galton, Michael Grüninger, Nicola Guarino, Leo Obrst, Arturo Sanchez, Amanda Vizedom, Peter Yim, Barry Smith:
Creating the ontologists of the future. Appl. Ontology 6(1): 91-98 (2011) - [c35]Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Christian Janiesch, Tom Kiemes, Daniel Oberle, Florian Probst:
Towards an Ontological Foundation of Services Science: The General Service Model. Wirtschaftsinformatik 2011: 47 - [p4]Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera:
Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective. Approaches to Legal Ontologies 2011: 235-258 - 2010
- [c34]Alessandro Oltramari, Guido Vetere, Maurizio Lenzerini, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino:
Senso Comune. LREC 2010
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c33]Nicola Guarino:
The Ontological Level: Revisiting 30 Years of Knowledge Representation. Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications 2009: 52-67 - [p3]Nicola Guarino, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab:
What Is an Ontology? Handbook on Ontologies 2009: 1-17 - [p2]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
An Overview of OntoClean. Handbook on Ontologies 2009: 201-220 - 2008
- [c32]Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino:
Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science. FIS 2008: 152-169 - [c31]Alessandro Artale, Nicola Guarino, C. Maria Keet:
Formalising Temporal Constraints on Part-Whole Relations. KR 2008: 673-683 - [c30]Nicola Guarino:
Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling and Knowledge Representation. SEBD 2008: 1 - 2006
- [j17]Diego Calvanese, Nicola Guarino:
Ontologies and Description Logics. Intelligenza Artificiale 3(1-2): 21-27 (2006) - [j16]Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi:
In the Defense of Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modelling. Scand. J. Inf. Syst. 18(1): 1 (2006) - [c29]Nicola Guarino:
Formal Ontology, Knowledge Representation and Conceptual Modelling: Old Inspirations, Still Unsolved Problems. ICCS 2006: 1 - 2005
- [j15]Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen:
Applied Ontology: Focusing on content. Appl. Ontology 1(1): 1-5 (2005) - 2004
- [j14]York Sure, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Walter Daelemans, Marie-Laure Reinberger, Nicola Guarino, Natalya Fridman Noy:
Why Evaluate Ontology Technologies? Because It Works!. IEEE Intell. Syst. 19(4): 74-81 (2004) - [c28]Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Nicola Guarino, Marten van Sinderen:
An Ontologically Well-Founded Profile for UML Conceptual Models. CAiSE 2004: 112-126 - [c27]Nicola Guarino:
Helping People (and Machines) Understanding Each Other: The Role of Formal Ontology. CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE (1) 2004: 599 - [c26]Claudio Masolo, Laure Vieu, Emanuele Bottazzi, Carola Catenacci, Roberta Ferrario, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino:
Social Roles and their Descriptions. KR 2004: 267-277 - [p1]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
An Overview of OntoClean. Handbook on Ontologies 2004: 151-172 - 2003
- [j13]Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Oltramari:
Sweetening WORDNET with DOLCE. AI Mag. 24(3): 13-24 (2003) - 2002
- [j12]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean. Commun. ACM 45(2): 61-65 (2002) - [c25]Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Oltramari, Luc Schneider:
Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE. EKAW 2002: 166-181 - [c24]Nicola Guarino, Luc Schneider:
Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling. ER 2002: 10 - [c23]Nicola Guarino, Luc Schneider:
Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling: Advanced Concepts. ER 2002: 12 - 2001
- [j11]Nicola Guarino:
Review of Sowa's Knowledge Representation. AI Mag. 22(3): 123-124 (2001) - [j10]Christopher A. Welty, Nicola Guarino:
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships. Data Knowl. Eng. 39(1): 51-74 (2001) - [c22]Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Alessandro Oltramari:
Conceptual analysis of lexical taxonomies: thecase of WordNet top-level. FOIS 2001: 285-296 - [c21]Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Oltramari:
Understanding top-level ontological distinctions. OIS@IJCAI 2001 - [i2]Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Alessandro Oltramari:
Conceptual Analysis of Lexical Taxonomies: The Case of WordNet Top-Level. CoRR cs.CL/0109013 (2001) - 2000
- [c20]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
Identity, Unity, and Individuality: Towards a Formal Toolkit for Ontological Analysis. ECAI 2000: 219-223 - [c19]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
A Formal Ontology of Properties. EKAW 2000: 97-112 - [c18]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty, Christopher Partridge:
Towards Ontology-Based Harmonization of Web Content Standards. ER (Workshops) 2000: 1-6 - [c17]Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty:
Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships. ER 2000: 210-224
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j9]Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Guido Vetere:
OntoSeek: content-based access to the Web. IEEE Intell. Syst. 14(3): 70-80 (1999) - [c16]Nicola Guarino:
The Role of Identity Conditions in Ontology Design. COSIT 1999: 221-234 - [c15]Nicola Guarino:
Avoiding IS-A Overloading: The Role of Identity Conditions in Ontology Design. Intelligent Information Integration 1999 - 1998
- [c14]Nicola Guarino:
Some ontological principles for designing upper level lexical resources. LREC 1998: 527-534 - [i1]Nicola Guarino:
Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources. CoRR cmp-lg/9809002 (1998) - 1997
- [j8]Nicola Guarino:
Understanding and building, using ontologies. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 46(2): 293-310 (1997) - [c13]Nicola Guarino:
Semantic Matching: Formal Ontological Distinctions for Information Organization, Extraction, and Integration. SCIE 1997: 139-170 - 1996
- [j7]Nicola Guarino, Simone Pribbenow, Laure Vieu:
Modeling Parts and Wholes. Data Knowl. Eng. 20(3): 257-258 (1996) - [j6]Alessandro Artale, Enrico Franconi, Nicola Guarino, Luca Pazzi:
Part-Whole Relations in Object-Centered Systems: An Overview. Data Knowl. Eng. 20(3): 347-383 (1996) - [c12]Alessandro Artale, Enrico Franconi, Nicola Guarino:
Open Problems with Part-Whole Relations. Description Logics 1996: 70-73 - [c11]Stefano Borgo, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo:
A Pointless Theory of Space Based on Strong Connection and Congruence. KR 1996: 220-229 - 1995
- [j5]Nicola Guarino, Roberto Poli:
Editorial: The role of formal ontology in the information technology. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 43(5-6): 623-624 (1995) - [j4]Nicola Guarino:
Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 43(5-6): 625-640 (1995) - 1994
- [c10]Nicola Guarino, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta:
Formalizing Ontological Commitment. AAAI 1994: 560-567 - [c9]Nicola Guarino, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta:
An Ontology of Meta-Level Categories. KR 1994: 270-280 - 1992
- [j3]Nicola Guarino:
Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations. Data Knowl. Eng. 8: 249-261 (1992) - [c8]Michela Fasolo, Lorenzo Garbuio, Nicola Guarino:
Robust parsing of natural language descriptions expressed in telegraphic style. ANLP 1992: 229-230 - [c7]Nicola Guarino:
Kinds of Relations: Some Methodological Principles for Using Description Logics. Description Logics 1992: 39-44 - 1991
- [j2]Nicola Guarino:
A Concise Presentation if ITL. SIGART Bull. 2(3): 61-69 (1991) - [c6]Nicola Guarino:
A Non-Standard Approach to terminological Knowledge: The ITL System. Description Logics 1991: 47-50 - [c5]Nicola Guarino:
A Concise Presentation of ITL. PDK 1991: 141-160 - [c4]Nicola Guarino:
A Mini-Description of the ITL System. PDK 1991: 408-410 - 1990
- [j1]Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bernd Owsnicki-Klewe, Alfred Kobsa, Nicola Guarino, Robert M. MacGregor, William S. Mark, Deborah L. McGuinness, Bernhard Nebel, Albrecht Schmiedel, John Yen:
Term Subsumption Languages in Knowledge Representation. AI Mag. 11(2): 16-23 (1990)
1980 – 1989
- 1988
- [c3]Nicola Guarino:
DRL: Terminologic and Relational Knowledge in Prolog. ECAI 1988: 130-135 - [c2]Nicola Guarino:
Attributed and Extensional Equivalence in DRL. ISMIS 1988: 240-249 - 1986
- [c1]Nicola Guarino:
Representing Domain Structure of Many-Sorted Prolog Knowledge Bases. Foundations of Logic and Functional Programming 1986: 168-183
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