Publications

Guizzardi, G., & Guarino, N. (2024). Explanation, semantics, and ontology. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 153, 102325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2024.102325

Guarino, N., Baratella, R., & Guizzardi, G. (2022). Events, their names, and their synchronic structure. Applied Ontology, 17(2), 249–283. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-220261

Oliveira, Í., Sales, T. P., Baratella, R., Fumagalli, M., & Guizzardi, G. (2022). An Ontology of Security from a Risk Treatment Perspective. In J. Ralyté, S. Chakravarthy, M. Mohania, M. A. Jeusfeld, & K. Karlapalem (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling (Vol. 13607, pp. 365–379). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17995-2_26

Zamborlini, V., Gonçalves, B., & Guizzardi, G. (n.d.). Codification and Application of a Well-Founded Heart-ECG Ontology. In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels for Software and Data Engineering (WOMSDE’08.

Paulo, P., Barcelos, F., Santos, V. A. D., Silva, F. B., Monteiro, M. E., & Garcia, A. S. (2014). An Automated Transformation from OntoUML to OWL and SWRL.

Goncalves, B., Zamborlini, V., Guizzardi, G., & Filho, J. G. P. (2009). An ontology-based application in heart electrophysiology: representation, reasoning and visualization on the web. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 816–820. https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529456

Cristine Griffo, Joao Paulo Almeida, & Guizzardi Giancarlo. (2016). A Pattern for the Representation of Legal Relations in a Legal Core Ontology. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 191–194. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-726-9-191

Verdonck, M., Gailly, F., Pergl, R., Guizzardi, G., Martins, B., & Pastor, O. (2018). Comparing traditional conceptual modeling with ontology-driven conceptual modeling: An empirical study. Information Systems, 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2018.11.009

Král, O. (2018). Ontological Analysis of ICT Project Change Management [Bachelor’s thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology]. https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/77477

Kolařík, V. (2014). Applying OntoUML for stuctural definitons of normalized systems expanders [Bachelor’s thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology]. https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/24458

Bringuente, A., Falbo, R., & Guizzardi, G. (2011). Using a Foundational Ontology for Reengineering a Software Process Ontology. JIDM, 2, 511–526.

Nardi, J. C., Falbo, R. de A., Almeida, J. P. A., Guizzardi, G., Pires, L. F., van Sinderen, M. J., Guarino, N., & Fonseca, C. M. (2015). A commitment-based reference ontology for services. Information Systems, 54, 263–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2015.01.012

Ferreira, M. I. G. B., Moreira, J., Campos, M. L. M., Braga, B. F. B., Sales, T. P., Cordeiro, K. D. F., & Borges, M. (2015, May). OntoEmergePlan: variability of emergency plans supported by a domain ontology. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Kristiansand, Norway.

Moreira, J., Cordeiro, K., Campos, M. L., & Borges, M. (2014). OntoWarehousing – Multidimensional Design Supported by a Foundational Ontology: A Temporal Perspective. In L. Bellatreche & M. K. Mohania (Eds.), Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (Vol. 8646, pp. 35–44). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10160-6_4

Nardi, J. C., Falbo, R. de A., Almeida, J. P. A., Guizzardi, G., Pires, L. F., van Sinderen, M. J., & Guarino, N. (2013). Towards a Commitment-Based Reference Ontology for Services. 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOC.2013.28

Martínez Ferrandis, A. M., Pastor López, O., & Guizzardi, G. (2013). Applying the Principles of an Ontology-Based Approach to a Conceptual Schema of Human Genome. In W. Ng, V. C. Storey, & J. C. Trujillo (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling (Vol. 8217, pp. 471–478). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_40

Gonçalves, B., Guizzardi, G., & Pereira Filho, J. G. (2011). Using an ECG reference ontology for semantic interoperability of ECG data. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44(1), 126–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2010.08.007

Guizzardi, G., Baião, F. A., Lopes, M., & de Almeida Falbo, R. (2010). The Role of Foundational Ontologies for Domain Ontology Engineering: An Industrial Case Study in the Domain of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production. International Journal of Information Systems Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 1(2), 1–22.

Guizzardi, G., Ferreira Pires, L., & Sinderen, M. (2005). An Ontology-Based Approach for Evaluating the Domain Appropriateness and Comprehensibility Appropriateness of Modeling Languages. In L. Briand & C. Williams (Eds.), Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Vol. 3713, pp. 691–705). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://80.link.springer.com.dialog.cvut.cz/chapter/10.1007/11557432_51

Griffo, C., Almeida, J. P. A., & Guizzardi, G. (n.d.). Towards a Legal Core Ontology Based on Alexy’s Theory of Fundamental Rights. ICAIL Multi-Lingual Workshop on AI & Law (MWAIL 2015), 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015).

Sales, T. P. (2014). Ontology Validation for Managers [Master Thesis]. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Guarino, N., & Guizzardi, G. (2016, January). Relationships and Events: Towards a General Theory of Reification and Truthmaking. 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2016).

Guizzardi, G., Guarino, N., & Almeida, J. P. A. (2016, October). Ontological Considerations about the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models. 14th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Guizzardi, G., Almeida, J. P. A., Guarino, N., & Carvalho, V. A. (2015, January). Towards an Ontological Analysis of Powertypes. International Workshop on Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence (FOFAI 2015).

Carraretto, R. (2010). A Modeling Infrastructure for OntoUML [Master Thesis]. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Brasileiro, F. (2016). Representation of multi-level domains on the web [Unpublished]. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13049.47206

Braga, B. F. B., & Almeida, J. P. A. (2015). Modeling Stories for Conceptual Model Assessment. In M. A. Jeusfeld & K. Karlapalem (Eds.), Advances in Conceptual Modeling (Vol. 9382, pp. 293–303). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25747-1_29

Sales, T. P., Barcelos, P. P. F., & Guizzardi, G. (2012). Identification of Semantic Anti-Patterns in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling via Visual Simulation. 4th International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems (ODISE), Together with the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS).

Guizzardi, G., & Sales, T. P. (2014). Detection, Simulation and Elimination of Semantic Anti-patterns in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Models. In Conceptual Modeling (pp. 363–376). Springer.

Sales, T. P., & Guizzardi, G. (n.d.). Ontological Anti-Patterns: Empirically Uncovered Error-Prone Structures in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Models. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 77–104. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279313867_Ontological_Anti-Patterns_Empirically_Uncovered_Error-Prone_Structures_in_Ontology-Driven_Conceptual_Models

Prince, S. T., & Giancarlo, G. (2016). Anti-patterns in Ontology-driven Conceptual Modeling: The Case of Role Modeling in OntoUML. Studies on the Semantic Web, 161–187. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-676-7-161

Guerson, J., Almeida, J. P. A., & Guizzardi, G. (2014). Support for Domain Constraints in the Validation of Ontologically Well-Founded Conceptual Models. In I. Bider, K. Gaaloul, J. Krogstie, S. Nurcan, H. A. Proper, R. Schmidt, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (Vol. 175, pp. 302–316). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://80.link.springer.com.dialog.cvut.cz/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_21

Guerson, J. (2015). Representing Dynamic Invariants in Ontologically Well-Founded Conceptual Models [Master Thesis]. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Guizzardi, G. (2006). Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem. In A. Garcia, R. Choren, C. Lucena, P. Giorgini, T. Holvoet, & A. Romanovsky (Eds.), Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV (Vol. 3914, pp. 143–160). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11738817_9

Albuquerque, A., & Guizzardi, G. (2013). An ontological foundation for conceptual modeling datatypes based on semantic reference spaces. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577693

Guizzardi, G., Wagner, G., Almeida, J. P. A., & Guizzardi, R. S. S. (2015). Towards Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling: The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) Story. Applied Ontology, 10(3–4), 259–271. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-150157

Carvalho, V. A., Almeida, J. P. A., & Guizzardi, G. (2016). Using a Well-Founded Multi-level Theory to Support the Analysis and Representation of the Powertype Pattern in Conceptual Modeling. In S. Nurcan, P. Soffer, M. Bajec, & J. Eder (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Vol. 9694, pp. 309–324). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_19

Carvalho, V. A., & Almeida, J. P. A. (2016). Toward a well-founded theory for multi-level conceptual modeling. Software & Systems Modeling. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-016-0538-9

Guizzardi, G. (2012). Ontological Meta-properties of Derived Object Types. In J. Ralyté, X. Franch, S. Brinkkemper, & S. Wrycza (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering (pp. 318–333). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31095-9_21

Leao, F., Revoredo, K., & Baiao, F. (2013). Learning Well-Founded Ontologies through Word Sense Disambiguation. 195–200. https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2013.40

Moreira, J., Sales, T. P., Guerson, J., Braga, B. F. B., Brasileiro, F., & Sobral, V. M. (2016, July). Menthor Editor: an ontology-driven conceptual modeling platform. 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Demonstration Track, Annecy, France.

Guerson, J., Sales, T. P., Guizzardi, G., & Almeida, J. P. A. (2015). OntoUML Lightweight Editor: A Model-Based Environment to Build, Evaluate and Implement Reference Ontologies. 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2015.17

Benevides, A. B., & Guizzardi, G. (2009). A Model-Based Tool for Conceptual Modeling and Domain Ontology Engineering in OntoUML. In J. Filipe & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems (Vol. 24, pp. 528–538). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01347-8_44

Guarino, N., & Guizzardi, G. (2015). “We Need to Discuss the Relationship”: Revisiting Relationships as Modeling Constructs. Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 279–294.

Guizzardi, G., & Wagner, G. (2008). What’s in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis. In Q. Li, S. Spaccapietra, E. Yu, & A. Olivé (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008 (Vol. 5231, pp. 83–97). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_8

Costal, D., Gómez, C., & Guizzardi, G. (2011). Formal Semantics and Ontological Analysis for Understanding Subsetting, Specialization and Redefinition of Associations in UML. In M. Jeusfeld, L. Delcambre, & T.-W. Ling (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling – ER 2011 (Vol. 6998, pp. 189–203). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24606-7_15

Guizzardi, G. (2007). Modal Aspects of Object Types and Part-Whole Relations and the de re/de dicto Distinction. In J. Krogstie, A. Opdahl, & G. Sindre (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Vol. 4495, pp. 5–20). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_2

Giancarlo, G. (2010). On the Representation of Quantities and their Parts in Conceptual Modeling. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 103–116. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-103

Guizzardi, G. (2010). Representing Collectives and Their Members in UML Conceptual Models: An Ontological Analysis. In J. Trujillo, G. Dobbie, H. Kangassalo, S. Hartmann, M. Kirchberg, M. Rossi, I. Reinhartz-Berger, E. Zimányi, & F. Frasincar (Eds.), Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Applications and Challenges (pp. 265–274). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-16385-2_33

Guizzardi, G. (2011). Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Part-Whole Relations: The Case of Collectives and Their Parts. In H. Mouratidis & C. Rolland (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Vol. 6741, pp. 138–153). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21640-4_12