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Validating modal aspects of OntoUML conceptual models using automatically generated visual world structures. (English) Zbl 1216.68280

Summary: Assessing the quality of conceptual models is key to ensure that conceptual models can be used effectively as a basis for understanding, agreement and construction of information systems. This paper proposes an approach to assess conceptual models defined in OntoUML by transforming these models into specifications in the logic-based language Alloy. These Alloy specifications include the modal axioms of the theory underlying OntoUML, allowing us to validate the modal meta-properties representing ontological commitments of the OntoUML types and relations.

MSC:

68T30 Knowledge representation
68N30 Mathematical aspects of software engineering (specification, verification, metrics, requirements, etc.)
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