UML as an ontology modelling language

Purvis, Martin; Cranefield, Stephen

UML as an ontology modelling language

Cranefield, Stephen; Purvis, Martin

Cite this item: Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (1999). UML as an ontology modelling language (Information Science Discussion Papers Series No. 99/01). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/932

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Date: 1999-01

Publisher: University of Otago

Pages: 10

Series: Information Science Discussion Papers Series

Series number: 99/01

Research Type: Discussion Paper

Abstract:

Current tools and techniques for ontology development are based on the traditions of AI knowledge representation research. This research has led to popular formalisms such as KIF and KL-ONE style languages. However, these representations are little known outside AI research laboratories. In contrast, commercial interest has resulted in ideas from the object-oriented programming community maturing into industry standards and powerful tools for object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. These standards and tools have a wide and rapidly growing user community. This paper examines the potential for object-oriented standards to be used for ontology modelling, and in particular presents an ontology representation language based on a subset of the Unified Modeling Language together with its associated Object Constraint Language.

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