Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Program design by informal English descriptions
Communications of the ACM
Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Extracting Initial UML Domain Models from Daml+OIL Encoded Ontologies
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
A UML profile and mapping for the generation of ontology-specific content languages
The Knowledge Engineering Review
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Ontological modeling for software application development
Advances in Engineering Software
Managing ontologies: a comparative study of ontology servers
ADC '07 Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Australasian database - Volume 63
Using the DC abstract model to support application profile developers
DCMI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: metadata for knowledge and learning
Extending the Unified Modelling Language to support visualisation of ontology models
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Ontology-supported quality assurance for component-based systems configuration
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software quality
Ontological modeling for software application development
Advances in Engineering Software
Fuzzy semantic web ontology learning from fuzzy UML model
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Semantic Event Correlation Using Ontologies
OTM '09 Proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009 on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Part II
SABPO: a standards based and pattern oriented multi-agent development methodology
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Automatic derivation of DAML-S service specifications from UML business models
ICWE'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Web engineering
A context-based enterprise ontology
BIS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business information systems
Merging model driven architecture and semantic web for business rules generation
RR'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
A systematic review on the definition of UML profiles
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part I
An adjustable transformation from OWL to ecore
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part II
Construction of ontologies from object-oriented database models
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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There is rapidly growing momentum for web enabled agents that reason about and dynamically integrate the appropriate knowledge and services at run-time. The World Wide Web Consortium and the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program have been actively involved in furthering this trend. The dynamic integration of knowledge and services depends on the existence of explicit declarative semantic models (ontologies). DAML is an emerging language for specifying machine-readable ontologies on the web. DAML was designed to support tractable reasoning.We have been developing tools for developing ontologies in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and generating DAML. This allows the many mature UML tools, models and expertise to be applied to knowledge representation systems, not only for visualizing complex ontologies but also for managing the ontology development process. Furthermore, UML has many features, such as profiles, global modularity and extension mechanisms that have yet to be considered in DAML.Our paper identifies the similarities and differences (with examples) between UML and DAML. To reconcile these differences, we propose a modest extension to the UML infrastructure for one of the most problematic differences. This is the DAML concept of property which is a first-class modeling element in DAML, while UML associations are not. For example, a DAML property can have more than one domain class. Our proposal is backward-compatible with existing UML models while enhancing its viability for ontology modeling.While we have focused on DAML in our research and development activities, the same issues apply to many of the knowledge representation languages. This is especially the case for semantic network and concept graph approaches to knowledge representations.