Ontological Anti-patterns in Aviation Safety Event Models

Last years, there has been growing interest in developing high quality models to ensure interoperability of applications as well as proper understanding among a community. To improve productivity of model designers as well as to improve quality of resulting models, proper theoretical foundations and tool support is necessary. This paper discusses some types of conceptual modeling anti-patterns that lead to error- prone modeling decisions, and describes a reproducible solution to a general anti-pattern detection problem during conceptual design. Novel contribution of this paper is the definition of new ontological anti-patterns, we observed during our work in design and model ontologies in the domain of Aviation Safety. The approach is illustrated on models designed by means of OntoUML, an ontology-founded UML profile based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO).