The role of Foundational Ontologies for Domain Ontology Engineering: a case study in the Software Process Domain

Foundational Ontologies are theoretically well-founded domain independent systems of categories that have been successfully used to improve the quality of conceptual modeling languages and models. In this paper, we present the latest developments in the UFO ontology. Moreover, we elaborate on the relevance of these foundational ontologies in the development of domain ontologies by showing a case study in the software process domain."