Automatic extraction of OWL ontologies from UML class diagrams: A semantics-preserving approach

World Wide Web

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 517-545

  Xu, Zhuoming ^a   Ni, Yuyan ^a   He, Wenjie ^a   Lin, Lili ^a   Yan, Qin ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

OWL DL ontology; schema translation; Semantic Web; semantics preservation; UML class diagram; Web ontology development

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; AUTOMATIC ONTOLOGY; AUTOMATIC TOOLS; DATABASE SCHEMAS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; INTEROPERATIONS; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; OWL ONTOLOGIES; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; TRANSLATION ALGORITHMS; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; WEB DATABASE; WEB ONTOLOGY;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 84865587984     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11280-011-0147-z     Document Type: Article

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