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Hi Mariano,
The current version of OntoUML language reflects the ontological distinctions
from the structural part of UFO i.e. UFO-A. UFO-A deals with types of endurants
(objects that persist in time) and their relations.The temporal part of UFO is
named UFO-B and deals with the types of perdurants (process, events,
situations, and so son).
Isn't that easy to include an event type in a structural conceptual model
(diagram) which represents a snapshot of reality.Events and objects are
different by nature, there is a huge discussion about this topic that I am not
going to elaborate here but all I can say is that this issue needs to be
further addressed i.e. whether should we represent this type of entity in a
structural conceptual model and with what semantics or in a different sort of
behavioural model.
With that being said, we don't have any entity from UFO-B in the current
version of the OntoUML language. In this sense, OLED cannot help you very much.
Having that in mind, if you still need to design a model with such
characteristics, you can use Astah to represent these stereotypes since it is
very flexible with regard to extending UML. You can use any stereotype you
want. However, by doing that, you will no longer be able to use OLED to build,
evalute and implement your ontology since OLED does not support the Event
stereotype.
You can actually think about other types of endurants which may be suitable to
your case, for instance, relators have a strict correspondence to events, they
are created by them. So maybe some of these events can be represented as
relators in OntoUML. But as I said earlier, you need to be careful in both
cases, choosing another stereotype for it or introducing events in (Onto)UML
class diagrams. Perhaps you might need to choose another language to represent
such entities.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
John
Original comment by johnguer...@gmail.com
on 15 Dec 2014 at 2:21
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mariano....@gmail.com
on 13 Dec 2014 at 4:17