The i * Mark-up Language : REFERENCE ’ S GUIDE

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000

Proceedings of the ER 2009 PhD Colloquium, affiliated to the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009), November 2009, Gramado, Brazil., 2009

The is-a relationship among actors has been introduced in the i* framework since its definition. However, its effect at the level of intentional elements and dependencies is not always clear. The main goal of this thesis is presenting a complete and non-ambiguous definition of inheritance for the i* framework. With this aim, it is necessary to define the modelling operations that make use of inheritance, explain how inheritance affects i* treatments and properties, and how the inherited elements can be represented graphically.

2000

Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language (CKML) is an application of XML. Earlier versions of CKML followed rather exclusively the philosophy of Conceptual Knowledge Processing (CKP), a principled approach to knowledge representation and data analysis that "advocates methods and instruments of conceptual knowledge processing which support people in their rational thinking, judgment and acting and promote critical discussion". The new version of CKML continues to follow this approach, but also incorporates various principles, insights and techniques from Information Flow (IF), the logical design of distributed systems. Among other things, this allows diverse communities of discourse to compare their own information structures, as coded in logical theories, with that of other communities that share a common generic ontology. CKML incorporates the CKP ideas of concept lattice and formal context, along with the IF ideas of classification (= formal context), infomorphism, theory, interpretation and local logic. Ontology Markup Language (OML), a subset of CKML that is a self-sufficient markup language in its own right, follows the principles and ideas of Conceptual Graphs (CG). OML is used for structuring the specifications and axiomatics of metadata into ontologies. OML incorporates the CG ideas of concept, conceptual relation, conceptual graph, conceptual context, participants and ontology. The link from OML to CKML is the process of conceptual scaling, which is the interpretive transformation of ontologically structured knowledge to conceptual structured knowledge.

2018

The focus of these guidelines is the manual annotation of coordinators and subordination boundaries, which comprise conjunctions, complementisers, wh-words, punctuation, and adjacent pairs of these words and punctuation symbols. In addition to guidelines, the document presents information on the annotation scheme used to develop training data for the automatic classification of coordinators and subordination boundaries.

2013

In knowledge engineering, ontology creation, and especially in knowledge-based configuration often used relations are: aggregate relations (has-parts, here called structural relations), specialization relation (is-a), and instantiation (instance-of). A combination of the later is called metaization, which denotes the use of multiple instantiation layers. In this paper, we give examples and use-hints for these relations especially from the configuration point of view. 1

1995

Techniques for analysis aim at diminishing the gap between users' concepts of the problem domain of computer systems and the computers' requirements for algorithmic and structural precision. This paper aims at improving techniques for analysis through suggesting a new type of relation between objects. We have defined a new abstraction relation called lifetime dependency: when an object (the dependent) throughout

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics - IWCS-8 '09, 2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008

Conceptual modeling notations are often designed without the benefit of empirical input. Reflective analysis of modeling languages can help find the gap between the intended design of the language and its use in practice. In this paper, we study instances of the i* goal and agent-oriented Framework to analyze differences between the core i* syntax developed at the University of Toronto and existing variations. We have surveyed 15 student assignments and 15 academic papers and presentations in order to capture and analyze the most common i* syntax variations. Through this analysis we offer insights into i* syntax and suggestions to improve the framework and increase consistency between models.

2005