As the Ontology Working Group (OWG) celebrates its 100th meeting today, we have great pleasure in being to able to present a paper on some of the work of the group.
Stephen Powley will be presenting the paper at The Annual Systems Engineering Conference (ASEC) 2025 in Ashford, Kent. The paper is called Putting the O in Model – Ontologies for MBSE Also see Stephen's LinkedIn post.
The paper introduces modelling with ontologies. Examples show different ways to model aircraft flights and how this can affect interoperability. The examples use the Unified Foundation Ontology (UFO) and the OntoUML modelling language based on UFO and UML. The paper discusses the importance of different perspectives and capturing these in our modelling and show the types of challenge a top-level ontology can help with. This demonstrates how relevant and important ontologies are for enhancing collaboration and understanding between stakeholders and the models they use.