Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development

• Main Authors: Gašević, Dragan (Author), Djurić, Dragan (Author), Devedžić, Vladan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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-d...

Table of Contents:

• Basics
• Knowledge Representation
• Ontologies
• The Semantic Web
• The Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• Modeling Spaces
• The Model Driven Architecture and Ontologies
• Software Engineering Approaches to Ontology Development
• The MDA-Based Ontology Infrastructure
• The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)
• The Ontology UML Profile
• Mappings of MDA-Based Languages and Ontologies
• Applications
• Using UML Tools for Ontology Modeling
• An MDA Based Ontology Platform: AIR
• Examples of Ontology.