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Towards OntoUML for Software Engineering: Introduction to The Transformation of OntoUML into Relational Databases

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Abstract

OntoUML is an ontologically well-founded conceptual modelling language that distinguishes various types of classifiers and relations providing precise meaning to the modelled entities. Efforts arise to incorporate OntoUML into the Model-Driven Development approach as the conceptual modelling language for the platform independent model of application data. This paper discusses the transformation of an OntoUML platform independent model into an implementation specific model of a relational database schema, while preserving the semantics of the OntoUML universal types.

This research was partially supported by grant by Student Grant Competition No. SGS16/120/OHK3/1T/18.

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Notes

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    http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/products/ea/.

  2. 2.

    https://www.visual-paradigm.com/.

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    https://github.com/dresden-ocl.

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    http://lci.cs.ubbcluj.ro/ocle/.

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    http://sourceforge.net/projects/useocl/.

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    https://github.com/nemo-ufes/ontouml-lightweight-editor.

  7. 7.

    http://www.menthor.net/menthor-editor.html.

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    http://www.menthor.net/ea-plugin.html.

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    https://zenodo.org/record/51859.

  10. 10.

    This is a fact of Czech legislative, however, it serves the purpose of describing the transformation of the phases.

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    For instance, phases without attributes may be refactored into a simple flag or enumeration attribute of the identity bearer.

  12. 12.

    These finer bits are, however, out of scope e of this paper.

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Rybola, Z., Pergl, R. (2016). Towards OntoUML for Software Engineering: Introduction to The Transformation of OntoUML into Relational Databases. In: Pergl, R., Molhanec, M., Babkin, E., Fosso Wamba, S. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49454-8_5

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