Research Archive
BORO Research
BORO conference papers, draft papers, extended abstracts, and presentation downloads.
Jun 2026
Meta-Regimenting Extensionalism
Presented at 4D SIG Workshop, 21st of May 2026, Web Science Institute, online
Jan 2026
Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling: A 4D Extensionalist Approach
Presented at Westminster Digital Business Symposium 2026, 8 January 2026, London, UK
Jan 2026
What are spatial objects?: a critical data infrastructure paradigm shift
Presented at Westminster Digital Business Symposium 2026, 8 January 2026, London, UK
Oct 2025
Disentangling the schema turn: Restoring the information base to conceptual modelling
Presented at FCM 2025, colocated with ER 2025, 20-23 October 2025, Poitiers, France
May 2025
BORO – General Context
Presented at C-FORS 2025, C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology, 20-23 May 2025, Oslo, Norway
May 2025
BORO Analysis Tools
Presented at C-FORS 2025, C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology, 20-23 May 2025, Oslo, Norway
May 2025
BORO Ontology
Presented at C-FORS 2025, C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology, 20-23 May 2025, Oslo, Norway
Mar 2025
Interoperability, Digitalisation, Innovation, Form
Published in 4D SIG Workshop - Web Science Institute, online – 6th March 2025
Dec 2024
Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example
Presented at 14th ESAO Session, 17 December 2024, Online
Oct 2024
Broadening Ontologization Design: Embracing Data Pipeline Strategies
Presented at STIDS 2024, Twelfth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, 22-23 October, Woodbridge VA, USA
Oct 2024
Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example
Presented at STIDS 2024, Twelfth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, 22-23 October, Woodbridge VA, USA
Oct 2024
Digitalizing Uncertain Information
Presented at STIDS 2024, Twelfth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, 22-23 October, Woodbridge VA, USA
Jul 2024
Taking a constructional turn to radically enrich a top ontology’s foundation: a case history
Presented at FOUST VIII 2024, 8th Workshop on Foundational Ontology, 15-16 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands
Jun 2024
Modernising Engineering Datasheets a bCLEARer project: A case study in migrating from legacy engineering standards
Presented at 4D SIG Workshop - Web Science Institute, online – 27th June 2024
Jun 2024
A brief introduction to BORO
Presented at Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies Symposium, Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies for Intelligence, Defence and Security, 18th June 2024, Cheltenham, UK
Mar 2024
Unification of Types and Multi-Level Modeling: Introduction - IS
Presented at King’s College London, Workshop on the Unification of Types and Multi-Level Modeling, 13 March 2024, London, UK
Mar 2024
Why Form, and so Unification of Types, is Important
Presented at King’s College London, Workshop on the Unification of Types and Multi-Level Modeling, 13 March 2024, London, UK
Jun 2023
Avoiding premature standardisation: balancing innovation and conformity
Presented at OntoCommons 2023, Second Global Workshop, Ontology Commons addressing the challenges of the Industry 5.0 transition, 13-16 June 2023, Hybrid, Oslo, Norway. Presented 14 June 2023.
May 2023
How to – and How Not to – Build Ontologies: The Hard Road to Semantic Interoperability
Presented at Systems Engineering Research Centre, Information Models and Ontologies to Enable Digital Engineering, Research Workshop, 23-24 May 2023, Washington, USA
Sept 2022
How an Evolutionary Framework Can Help Us To Understand What A Domain Ontology Is (Or Should Be) And How To Build One
Presented at Keynote Presentation. FOMI 2022, 12th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, 12-15 September 2022, Tarbes, France
Jul 2022
Building the foundations for better decisions
Presented at Westminster Digital Business Symposium 2022, 7 July 2022, London, UK
May 2022
How the IMF Team is building a four-dimensional top-level ontology
Presented at 4D SIG Meeting, May 2022, Online Meeting
Apr 2022
A couple of frameworks for mapping TLOs
Presented at FATLOS Workshop, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, 21 April 2022, Trento, Italy
Apr 2022
Core Constructional Ontology: The Foundation for the Top-Level Ontology of the Information Management Framework
Published in Unpublished draft, April 2022
Feb 2022
Developing Thin Slices: An Introduction to the Methodology for Developing the Foundation Data Model and Reference Data Library of the Information Management Framework
Published in CPNI (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure), Unpublished draft, March 2022
Feb 2022
Top-Level Categories: Categories for the Top-Level Ontology of the Information Management Framework
Published in CPNI (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure), Unpublished draft, March 2022
Nov 2021
A Framework for Composition: A Step Towards a Foundation for Assembly
Published in Centre for Digital Built Britain, Report, version 1, Cambridge, 2021
Sept 2021
Digitalisation Levels
Presented at Gemini Call, Weekly meeting, 14th September 2021, Online
Apr 2021
A 4-Dimensionalist Top Level Ontology (TLO): Mereotopology and Space-Time
Presented at INI Newton Gateway to Mathematics 2021, April 2021, Online
Apr 2021
Core Constructional Ontology (CCO): a Constructional Theory of Parts, Sets, and Relations
Presented at INI Newton Gateway to Mathematics, 4-Dimensionalism in Large Scale Data Sharing and Integration, April 2021, Online
Apr 2021
The Basics of 4-Dimensionalism and the Role it Can Take in Supporting Large Scale Data Integration
Presented at INI Newton Gateway to Mathematics, 4-Dimensionalism in Large Scale Data Sharing and Integration, April 2021, Online
Mar 2021
BORO: Business Objects Reference Ontology
Presented at OntoCommons: Top-Level and Mid-Level Ontologies Multi-Disciplinary Workshop, 29 March - 08 April 2021, Online
Mar 2021
A Framework for Composition: A step towards a foundation for assembly: An Introduction
Presented at 4D SIG Workshop, March 2021, Online
Feb 2021
ISO TC211 workshop: to consider the impact of non-relational technologies on TC211 standards: BORO Solutions experience
Presented at ISO TC211, Workshop: adjusting standards to new technical opportunities (2 of 2), 4th February 2021, London, UK
Jan 2021
A survey of top-level ontologies: framework and results
Presented at University of Westminster, Internal presentation, 20th January 2021, London, UK
Dec 2020
ISO TC211 workshop to consider the impact of non-relational technologies on TC211 standards
Presented at ISO TC211, Workshop: adjusting standards to new technical opportunities (1 of 2), 18th December, 2020, London, UK
Nov 2020
A Survey of Industry Data Models and Reference Data Libraries: To identify requirements for, and provide input to a Foundation Data Model
Published in Centre for Digital Built Britain, Report, version 1, Cambridge, 2020
Nov 2020
A survey of Top-Level Ontologies: To inform the ontological choices for a Foundation Data Model
Published in Centre for Digital Built Britain, Report, version 1, Cambridge, 2020
Oct 2020
Implicit Requirements for Ontological Multi-Level Types in the UNICLASS Classification
Presented at MULTI 2020, co located with MODELS 2020, 18-20 October 2020, Online
Sept 2020
A survey of top-level ontologies
Presented at 4D SIG Workshop - University of Southampton – 11th September 2020
Jan 2020
The Fantastic Combinations and Permutations of Coordinate Systems' Characterising Options: The Game of Constructional Ontology
Presented at Unpublished manuscript - circulated 2020
Nov 2019
Grounding for an Enterprise Computing Nomenclature Ontology
Presented at ER 2019, 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 4-7 November 2019, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Nov 2019
Grounding for an Enterprise Computing Nomenclature Ontology - Long Version
Presented at ER 2019, 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 4-7 November 2019, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Sept 2019
Coordinate Systems: Level Ascending Ontological Options
Presented at MULTI 2019, 6th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling, 16 September 2019, Munich, Germany
Oct 2018
Thoroughly Modern Accounting: Shifting to a De Re Conceptual Pattern for Debits and Credits
Presented at ER Forum 2018, co located with ER 2018, 22-25 October 2018, 2018, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China
Jan 2018
Ontology then agentology: A finer grained framework for enterprise modelling
Presented at MODELSWARD, 6th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, 22-24 January 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Dec 2017
Dagstuhl Commercial Introductions: BORO Solutions
Presented at Dagstuhl Seminar 17492 Multi-Level Modelling, 4 - 8 December, 2017, Dagstuhl, Germany
Sept 2017
Developing an Ontological Sandbox: Investigating Multi-Level Modelling’s Possible Metaphysical Structures
Presented at MULTI 2017, 4th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling, colocated with MODELS 2017, 19 September 2017, Austin, Texas
Nov 2016
Grounding for Ontological Architecture Quality: Metaphysical Choices
Published in In <i>Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2016 Workshops, AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME, and WM2SP, Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016, Proceedings</i>, Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016, S. LINK AND J.C. TRUJILLO, Eds. Springer International Publishing, , 9-15-XXIII, 251
Jun 2016
BORO Foundational Ontology's Meta-ontological Choices
Presented at Onto.Com 2016, co-located with FOIS 2016, 6-9 June 2016, Annecy, France
May 2016
BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology
Published in Journal of Information Systems 30, Number 2, 83-112
Apr 2016
Formalization of the classification pattern: survey of classification modeling in information systems engineering
Published in 2016. Formalization of the classification pattern: survey of classification modeling in information systems engineering. Software & Systems Modeling 1-37
Feb 2016
how boro has been used
Oct 2015
Improving Model Quality through Foundational Ontologies: Two Contrasting Approaches to the Representation of Roles
Published in In International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER 2015 Workshops AHA, CMS, EMoV, MoBID, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, and SCME, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-22, 2015, Proceedings, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-22, 2015, M.A. JEUSFELD AND K. KARLAPALEM, Eds. Springer, 304-314
Jun 2015
NORSOK Z-014: A 21st Century Update
Presented at AACE 2015, Annual meeting, 28 June - 1 July 2015, Las Vegas, USA
Nov 2013
Tullow's master data
Published in Oil Information Technology Journal, Vol. 18, No. 12, 197th Issue, December 2013
Nov 2013
Geospatial and temporal reference: A case study illustrating (radical) refactoring
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Nov 2013
Are Conceptual Models Concept Models?
Presented at ER 2013, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 11-13 November 2013, Hong Kong
Nov 2013
A Robust Common Master Data Foundation for Oil and Gas
Presented at ED&BI 2013, Conference Europe, 4-6 November 2013, London, UK
Sept 2013
Air Control Means: An ‘improving precision’ case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
BORO introduction: The industrial application of ontology: Driven by a foundational ontology
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
BORO-related standards overview
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
Foundations of accounting: A paradigm shift case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
MODEM - Behaviour: A ‘structural constraints’ case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
NORSOK SCCS: An improving ‘structural constraints’ case study
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
Ontology - Introduction: The Industrial Application of Ontology: Driven by a foundational ontology
Presented at Tutorial - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sept 2013
Top ontology(ies);: why bother?
Presented at Keynote - ONTOBRAS 2013, Brazilian Conference on Ontologies, 23-25 September 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Jun 2013
Ontology-Driven Re-engineering of Business Systems
Presented at Tutorial - CAiSE 2013, 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 17-21 June 2013, Valencia, Spain
Jun 2013
Re-engineering Data with 4D Ontologies and Graph Databases
Published in 2013. Re-engineering data with 4D ontologies and graph databases. In Proceedings of the workshops of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, X. FRANCH AND P. SOFFER, Eds. Springer, 304-316
Jan 2013
Ontology Architecture: Top Ontology Architecture
Presented at Ontology Summit 2013, Theme: “Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle”, Track-C: Building Ontologies to Meet Evaluation Criteria, Session Topic: Ontology Development Methodologies for Integrating Ontologies, 7th January 2013, Online
Oct 2012
DoD Architectures and Systems Engineering Integration
Presented at NDIA 2012, AT&L System Engineering Conference, 22-25 October 2012, San Diego, USA
Aug 2012
Guidelines for Developing Ontological Architectures in Modelling and Simulation
Published in 2012. Guidelines for Developing Ontological Architectures in Modelling and Simulation. In Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation: Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications, A. TOLK, Ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 27-57
Jul 2012
Ontology meets Big Data: Immutability
Presented at Keynote - ODISE IV 2012, 4th International Workshop on Ontology‐Driven Information Systems Engineering, colocated with FOIS 2012, 24-27 July 2012, Graz, Austria
Jun 2012
Introduction to MODEM: Building a Semantic Foundation for EA: Reengineering the MODAF™ Meta-Model Based on the IDEAS Foundation
Presented at MODEM Meeting, UK Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall, 21 June 2012, London, UK
Jun 2012
MODEM – Building a semantic foundation for enterprise architecture: Reengineering the MODAF meta-model based on the IDEAS foundation model
Presented at Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2012, colocated with Business Process Management Conference Europe, 18-20 June 2012, London, UK
May 2012
Toward a Perdurantist Ontology of Contracts
Published in 2012. In Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2012, M. BAJEC AND J. EDER, Eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 85-96.
Mar 2012
‘System Components’ as a litmus test for your ontological architecture
Presented at Ontology Summit 2012, Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering theme, Tracks 1 & 2 - Session 11, 22 March 2012
Mar 2012
MODEM - Reengineering the MODAF meta-model based on the IDEAS foundation model
Presented at Integrated EA 2012, 6-7 March 2012, London, UK
Feb 2012
Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering
Presented at Ontology Summit 2012, Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering theme - Session 04, 2 February 2012
Aug 2011
A Novel Ontological Approach to Semantic Interoperability between Legacy Air Defense Command and Control Systems
Published in IJIDSS, International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, Vol. 4, No.3 pp. 232 – 262, 2011
Aug 2011
Demonstrating a Successful Strategy for Network Enabled Capability
Presented at NATO Symposium IST-101 / RSY-024, Semantic and Domain-based Interoperability, November 2011, Oslo, Norway
Aug 2011
Semantic Modernisation: Layering, Harvesting and Interoperability
Presented at NATO Symposium IST-101 / RSY-024, Semantic and Domain-based Interoperability, November 2011, Oslo, Norway
Jun 2011
Ontology Mining versus Ontology Speculation
Presented at Keynote - ODISE III 2011, 3rd International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering, colocated with CAiSE 2011, 20-24 June 2011, London, UK
Feb 2011
What is a service?
Presented at Integrated EA 2011, 1-2 March 2011, London, UK
Jan 2011
MODEM MODAF Migration: Providing an ontological foundation
Published in February 2011: Based upon an Internal Report to the Swedish Armed Forces
Jul 2009
A Forensic Approach to Information Systems Development: Part II - Ways to Fix the Problem
Published in August 2009. A Forensic Approach to Information Systems Development: Part II - Ways to Fix the Problem. Enterprise Architecture Advisory Service, Executive Update 12, no.15.
May 2009
The Challenge of Epistemic Divergence in IS Development
Published in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, No. 6. p. 127, June 2009
Feb 2008
MOD Ontology
Presented at NATO Ontology Workshop, NATO Communications and Information Agency, March 2008, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Jan 2008
An Introduction to Ontology
Presented at Tutorial - Integrated EA 2008, February, 2008, London, UK
Jul 2007
Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems
Presented at Ontolog Mini-Series, Database And Ontology - Session 9, 5 July 2007
Dec 2006
Enterprise Data Modelling: Developing an Ontology-Based Framework for the Shell Downstream Business
Presented at FOMI 2006, Second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop, 14-15 December 2006, Trento, Italy
Jun 2005
Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use - 2nd Edition
Published in 2005. Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use. The BORO Centre
Jan 2005
An Ontological Approach for Recovering Legacy Business Content
Presented at HICSS 2005, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
Dec 2004
Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems
Published in 2005. Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems. In Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 2004. Oslo, Norway, June 14-18, 2004, J. MALENFANT AND B.M. ØSTVOLD, Eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 62-66
Jul 2004
Software Stability: Recovering General Patterns of Business
Presented at AMCIS 2004, Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 2004, New York, USA
Jun 2004
Setting the Scene: 42 Objects Business Ontology Based Software Development
Presented at Philosophy, Ontology, and Information Systems, colocated with ECOOP 2004, 14-18 June 2004, Oslo, Norway
Oct 2003
Software Stability: Recovering General Patterns of Business
Presented at UML 2003, 6th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, 20 October 2003, San Francisco, California, USA
Mar 2003
Shifting the ontological foundations of accounting’s conceptual scheme
Presented at ECAIS 2003, Sixth European Conference on Accounting Information Systems, 1 April 2003, Seville, Spain
Dec 2002
A Program for Building a State of the Art Enterprise Ontology: Report on Progress
Published in 2003. A program for building a state of the art Enterprise Ontology: Report on Progress. In Practical Foundations of Business and Systems Specifications, H. KILOV AND K. BACLAWSKI, Eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 271-279
Nov 2002
A new foundation for accounting: Steps towards the development of a reference ontology for accounting
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 23/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
Nov 2002
STPO: The synthesis of a TOVE Persons Ontology
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 24/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
Nov 2002
The CEO Project: An Introduction
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 07/02, December 2002, Padova, Italy
Nov 2002
The Role of Ontology in Semantic Integration
Presented at SoEI 2002, 2nd Workshop on the Semantics of Enterprise Integration, colocated with OOPSLA 2002, 4–8 November 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
Nov 2002
What is a customer?: The beginnings of a reference ontology for customer
Presented at 11th OOPSLA Workshop on behavioral semantics, colocated with OOPSLA 2002, 4-8 November 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jun 2002
Note: A couple of meta-ontological choices for ontological architectures
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 06/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy
May 2002
What is Pump Facility PF101?: A Study in Ontology
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 04/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy
Apr 2002
Synthesising an Industrial Strength Enterprise Ontology
Presented at ICEIMT 2002, Third International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology, 24-26 April 2002, Valencia, Spain
Dec 2001
The Role of Ontology in Integrating Semantically Heterogeneous Databases
Published in LOA (LADSEB-CNR), Technical Report 05/02, June 2002, Padova, Italy
Oct 2001
A Synthesis of State of the Art Enterprise Ontologies: Work in Progress
Presented at 10th OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics 2001, colocated with OOPSLA 2001, 14–18 October 2001, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
Sept 2001
A Synthesis of State of the Art Enterprise Ontologies: Work in Progress
Presented at OES-SEO 2001, International Workshop on Open Enterprise Solutions: Systems, Experiences, and Organizations, 14-15 September 2001, Rome, Italy
Dec 1995
Business Objects: Re-Engineering for Re-Use - 1st Edition
Published in 1996. Business Objects: Re - Engineering for Re - Use. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford
Oct 1994
Modelling the real world: Are classes abstractions or objects?
Published in Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 39-45, 1994