: Object-role Modeling (ORM) is a fact-oriented modeling approach for specifying, transforming, and querying information at a conceptual level. Unlike Entity-Relationship modeling ...
Object-Role modellers miss the advantages of automated reasoning over their ORM conceptual models, which could be addressed by DL reasoners. DLs are not considered user-friendly an...
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...
Development of ontology development tools and ontology-enhanced software applications requires thorough understanding of ontology languages in order to implement them according to ...
Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...