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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models
Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Gerd Wagner
EKAW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language
There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers (e.g., [1,2]) we have been using the Gener...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Heinrich Herre
ER
2001
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs
Abstract. Conceptual models are formal descriptions of application domains that are used in early stages of system development to support requirements analysis. The Unified Modeli...
Joerg Evermann, Yair Wand
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Graphical Notation for OWL 2
The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) defines a set of UML metamodels and profiles for development of RDF and OWL. The UML profiles in the ODM specification adapt UML notations t...
Elisa F. Kendall, Roy Bell, Roger Burkhart, Mark D...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Theoretical foundations and engineering tools for building ontologies as reference conceptual models
Abstract. Perhaps the most fundamental notion underlying the desiderata for a successful Semantic Web is Semantic Interoperability. In this context, ontologies have been more and m...
Giancarlo Guizzardi