Author:
Joanna Isabelle Olszewska
Affiliation:
University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
UML, Activity Diagram, OWL, Ontology Design, Knowledge Engineering, Software Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
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Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
Domain Analysis and Modeling
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge Representation
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Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Building efficiently an ontology is a crucial task for most of the applications involving knowledge representation.
In particular, applications dealing with dynamic processes directly shaping the ontological domain
need the conceptualization of complex activities within this domain. For this purpose, we propose to develop
an OWL ontology based on UML activity diagrams. Indeed, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a
well-known visual language widely adopted for software specification and documentation. UML consists in
structure as well as behaviour notations such as activity diagrams which describe the flow of control and data
through the various stages of a procedure. Our approach has been successfully validated in a study case of an
ontology with a publication repository domain.