Software engineering ontology : a development methodology
Olavo Mendes, Alain Abran · 2004
According to Gruber’s definition an ontology [1] is “a formal specification of a conceptualization”. A conceptualisation being a simplified, abstract way of perceiving a segment of the world (a piece of reality), for which we agree to recognize the existence of a set of objects and their interrelations, as well as the terms we use to refer to them and their agreed meanings and properties.