OWLizing: transforming software models to ontologies

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Walter;Fernando Silva Parreiras;Gerd Gröner;Christian Wende

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany;University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany;University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany;Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Ontology-Driven Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Today Model Driven Development (MDD) has a quite high importance in describing and building software systems. Although there are formal methodologies for defining software modeling languages we have analyzed some open challenges. Semantics of software modeling languages often are not defined within the language definition. In addition syntactic well-formedness constraints are often not explicitly defined in the language definition. To tackle these challenges we suggest the use of ontology technologies. Ontology technologies are used to extend the expressive of software modeling languages and to enable automated reasoning on all model artifacts in MDD. In this paper we show methodologies to bridge software modeling with ontology technologies and show applications where to adopt them.