reportsTo in the Org Ontology

Dear All,

I am currently joining the GLD working group and looking forward to
contribute.

I have a special interest in the Org Ontology as we have been working on
the modelling of organizational structures, roles and the concept of
organization from the perspective of foundational ontologies. (See refs
below.)

The first thing that caught my attention was the "reportTo" relation in
the Org ontology.

Currently, the domain and range are a union of foaf:Agent and org:Post.
(Where in the previous April 2012 version it was only foaf:Agent).

In my opinion, foaf:Agent should be excluded from the domain and range,
because "reportsTo" is always a relation in the scope of organizations and
never a relation of Agents outside the context of membership in an
organization. Let me clarify this with an example: Alex may report to Joćo
Paulo in the scope of his membership to UFES, but Joćo Paulo may report to
Alex in the scope of his membership to The Victoria Chess Club.

So the domain and range of "reportsTo" should be foaf:Membership or
foaf:Post (or the union).


Regards,
Joćo Paulo A. Almeida

Federal University of Espķrito Santo (UFES)
Ontology and Conceptual Modelling Research Group (NEMO)
Computer Science Department
http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/jpalmeida
+55 (27) 4009-2132 / +55 (27) 9238-7828

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SANTOS JR., P. S. ; ALMEIDA, J. P. A. ; Guizzardi, Giancarlo. An
Ontology-Based Analysis and Semantics for Organizational Structure
Modeling in the ARIS Method. Information Systems (Oxford), Elsevier, to
appear.

ALMEIDA, J. P. A. ; GUIZZARDI, G.; SANTOS JR., P. S. . Applying and
Extending a Semantic Foundation for Role-Related Concepts in Enterprise
Modelling. Enterprise Information Systems (Print), v. 3, p. 253-277, 2009.



ALMEIDA, J. P. A. ; Guizzardi, Giancarlo . An Ontological Analysis of the
Notion of Community in the RM-ODP Enterprise Language. Computer Standards
& Interfaces, v. 34, p. 1, 2012.

ALMEIDA, J. P. A. ; CARDOSO, E. C. S. . On the Elements of an Enterprise:
Towards an Ontology-Based Account. In: 26th ACM Symposium On Applied
Computing (ACM SAC 2011), 2011, Taichung, Taiwan. 26th ACM Symposium On
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Received on Monday, 22 October 2012 12:28:22 UTC