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MDA Standards for Ontology Development

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Ontologies

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems ((ISIS,volume 14))

Abstract

Ontologies and Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) are two modeling approaches being developed in parallel, but by different communities. They have common points and issues and can be brought closer together. Many authors have so far attempted to bridge gaps and have proposed several solutions. The result of these efforts is the recent OMG’s initiative for defining an ontology development platform. In this chapter, we are giving an overview of the state-of-the-art research on the subject of applications of MDA standards for ontology development. The chapter is a result of our experience in developing the MDA-based ontology infrastructure as well as a series of tutorials we gave at many international conferences. The chapter tries to indicate the most important definition for both of the considered modeling approaches. Using those definitions, we depict their mutual similarities and differences. Then, we show the present solution pursuing to apply MDA standard to ontology development with the main stress on OMG’s standardization efforts.

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  1. FON — School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, POB 52, Jove Ilića 154, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

    Dragan Djurić & Vladan Devedžić

  2. School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Surrey, 2400 Central City, 10153 King George Hwy, Surrey, BC, V3T 2W1, Canada

    Dragan Gašević

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Djurić, D., Gašević, D., Devedžić, V. (2007). MDA Standards for Ontology Development. In: Sharman, R., Kishore, R., Ramesh, R. (eds) Ontologies. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37022-4_8

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