UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology

Giancarlo Guizzardi; Alessander Botti Benevides; Claudenir M. Fonseca; Daniele Porello; João Paulo A. Almeida; Tiago Prince Sales

doi:10.3233/AO-210256

UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology

Giancarlo Guizzardi^*
, Alessander Botti Benevides
, Claudenir M. Fonseca
, Daniele Porello
, João Paulo A. Almeida
, Tiago Prince Sales

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophical logics. It comprises a number of micro-theories addressing fundamental conceptual modeling notions, including entity types and relationship types. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current state of UFO, presenting a formalization of the ontology, along with the analysis of a number of cases to illustrate the application of UFO and facilitate its comparison with other foundational ontologies in this special issue. (The cases originate from the First FOUST Workshop - the Foundational Stance, an international forum dedicated to Foundational Ontology research.)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	167-210
Number of pages	44
Journal	Applied ontology
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-210256
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2022

Keywords

NLA
foundational ontology
ontological analysis
OntoUML
UFO
formal ontology

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