A Semantic-Based Approach to Interoperability of UML Schemas

Authors:
Nadia Yaacoubi Ayadi;Yann Pollet;Mohamed Ben Ahmed
Affiliations:
Laboratoire RIADI-GDL, Tunisia;Consevatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France;Laboratoire RIADI-GDL, Tunisia
Venue:
WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We address in this paper the issue of a semantic interoperability between systems relying on semantically heterogeneous models, having been designed for the purpose of independent specific goals and activities. Examples of models include ER-schema, ontologies and taxonomies. In our approach, we make explicit the semantics embedded in UML class diagrams. Towards the high expressiveness of UML constructs, we formalize their semantics in terms of a logic belonging to Description logics. However, in our opinion, Description logics's constructors are not sufficient to express contextual knowledge, we propose a reference metamodel that offers contextual primitives.