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Title	Comprehending 3D and 4D ontology-driven conceptual models: An empirical study
Type	Journal article
Authors	Verdonck, M.
	Gailly, F.
	De Cesare, S.
Abstract	This paper presents an empirical study that investigates the extent to which the pragmatic quality of ontology-driven models is influenced by the choice of a particular ontology, given a certain understanding of that ontology. To this end, we analyzed previous research efforts and distilled three hypotheses based on different metaphysical characteristics. An experiment based on two foundational ontologies (UFO and BORO) involving 158 participants was then carried out, followed by a protocol analysis to gain further insights into the results of experiment. We then extracted five derivations from the results of the empirical study in order to summarize our findings. Overall, the results confirm that the choice of a foundational ontology can lead to significant differences in the interpretation and comprehension of the conceptual models produced. Moreover, the effect of applying a certain foundational ontology can cause considerable variations in the effort required to comprehend these models.
Keywords	Ontology
	Conceptual modeling
	Empirical study
	Ontology-driven conceptual modeling
	Experiment
	UFO
	BORO
Article number	101568
Journal	Information Systems
Journal citation	93
ISSN	0306-4379
Year	2020
Publisher	Elsevier
Accepted author manuscript	Comprehending 3D and 4D ontology-driven conceptual models - an empirical study.pdf License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101568
Web address (URL)	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437920300582
Published online	03 Jun 2020
Published in print	Nov 2020

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