Using a foundational ontology to investigate the semantics behind the concepts of the i* language

R. Guizzardi-Silva Souza; Xavier Franch; G. Guizzardi; Roelf J. Wieringa

Using a foundational ontology to investigate the semantics behind the concepts of the i* language

R. Guizzardi-Silva Souza, Xavier Franch, G. Guizzardi, Roelf J. Wieringa

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Abstract

In the past few years, the community that develops i* has become aware of the problem of having so many variants, since it makes it difficult for newcomers to learn how to use the language and even to experts to efficiently exchange knowledge and disseminate their proposals. Moreover, this problem also delays the transfer of the i* framework to industrial settings. Our work is one of the current attempts to promote interoperability among the existing variants, and it does that by investigating the semantics behind the i* core concepts. For that, we apply a foundational ontology named UFO, which is used as a semantically coherent reference model to which the language should be isomorphic. In this paper, we report on the steps we have pursued, what we have accomplished so far, also setting the context for the work ahead.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International i* Workshop (iStar 2013)
Editors	J. Castro, J. Horkhoff, N. Maiden, E. Yu
Place of Publication	Europe
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	13-18
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013
Event	6th International i* Workshop, iStar 2013 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 17 Jun 2013 → 18 Jun 2013

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Publisher	CEUR-WS.org
Volume	978
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Workshop	6th International i* Workshop, iStar 2013
Period	17/06/13 → 18/06/13
Other	17-18 June 2013

Keywords

SCS-Services
EWI-23794
language interoperability
iStar
IR-87986
Semantics
Foundational Ontology
METIS-300056
UFO

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Towards an Ontology-Driven Approach for Process-Aware Risk Propagation
Engelberg, G., Fumagalli, M., Kuboszek, A., Klein, D., Soffer, P. & Guizzardi, G., 22 Dec 2022, ArXiv.org, p. 1-8, 8 p.
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Guizzardi-Silva Souza, R, Franch, X, Guizzardi, G & Wieringa, RJ 2013, Using a foundational ontology to investigate the semantics behind the concepts of the i* language. in J Castro, J Horkhoff, N Maiden & E Yu (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International i* Workshop (iStar 2013). CEUR, Europe, pp. 13-18, 6th International i* Workshop, iStar 2013, 17/06/13. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-978/paper_3.pdf>

Using a foundational ontology to investigate the semantics behind the concepts of the i* language. / Guizzardi-Silva Souza, R.; Franch, Xavier; Guizzardi, G. et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International i* Workshop (iStar 2013). ed. / J. Castro; J. Horkhoff; N. Maiden; E. Yu. Europe: CEUR, 2013. p. 13-18.

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Using a foundational ontology to investigate the semantics behind the concepts of the i* language

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