A Semantics-preserving approach for extracting OWL ontologies from UML class diagrams

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 64, Issue , 2009, Pages 122-136

  Xu, Zhuoming ^a   Ni, Yuyan ^a   Lin, Lili ^a   Gu, Huajian ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ontology development; OWL ontology; Schema translation; Semantic Web; Semantics preservation; UML class diagram

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ONTOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; OWL ONTOLOGIES; SCHEMA TRANSLATION; SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS; TRANSLATION ALGORITHMS; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRAPHIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 73349102784     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10583-8_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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