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 System Modeling and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Baião, Fernanda ^b   Lopes, Mauro ^b   Falbo, Ricardo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Oil and gas domain; Ontologies; Ontology languages; OWL DL model

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; GAS INDUSTRY; MODELING LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL TRACTABILITY; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING PROCESS; ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

EID: 84908330663     PISSN: 19478186     EISSN: 19478194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jismd.2010040101     Document Type: Article

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