Towards Ontological Foundations for Agent Modeling Concepts using UFO
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner · 2005
Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built.This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be used as a foundation of agent concepts and for evaluating agent-oriented modeling methods.UFO is derived from a synthesis of two other foundational ontologies, GFO/GOL and OntoClean/DOLCE.While their main areas of application are the natural sciences and linguistics/cognitive engineering, respectively, the main purpose of UFO is to provide a foundation for conceptual modeling, including agentoriented modeling.