Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development
- 4h 53m
- Dragan Djuric, Dragan Gaševic, Vladan Devedzic
- Springer
- 2006
Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than with self-evident physical artefacts. However, this development step is hardly ever done, as ontologies rely on well-defined and semantically powerful AI concepts such as description logics or rule-based systems, and most software engineers are largely unfamiliar with these.
Gaševic and his co-authors try to fill this gap by covering the subject of MDA application for ontology development on the Semantic Web. Part I of their book describes existing technologies, tools, and standards like XML, RDF, OWL, MDA, and UML. Part II presents the first detailed description of OMG’s new ODM (Ontology Definition Metamodel) initiative, a specification which is expected to be in the form of an OMG language like UML. Finally, Part III is dedicated to applications and practical aspects of developing ontologies using MDA-based languages.
In this Book
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Foreword
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Knowledge Representation
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Ontologies
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The Semantic Web
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The Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
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Modeling Spaces
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Software Engineering Approaches to Ontology Development
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The MDA-Based Ontology Infrastructure
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The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)
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The Ontology UML Profile
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Mappings of MDA-Based Languages and Ontologies
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Using UML Tools for Ontology Modeling
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An MDA Based Ontology Platform—AIR
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Examples of Ontology
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References
