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UFO

Unified Foundational Ontology

Integrates GFO, DOLCE, and OntoClean. Theoretical basis for the OntoUML conceptual modeling language.

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Conceptual modeling with OntoUML

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Enterprise ontology engineering

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Domain ontology development

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Software requirements modeling

Details

Maintained By
NEMO Group, UFES Brazil
License
Open

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Category
Foundational
Website
https://nemo-ufes.github.io/gufo/

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