- From: Elisa F. Kendall <ekendall@sandsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:20:51 -0800
- To: Jyotishman Pathak <jyotishman@gmail.com>, public-sws-ig@w3.org
- CC: Evan Wallace <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
HI Jyoti, The first step in this process to date has been work on the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) in the OMG [1], which I'm co-editing with Chris Welty (IBM). We have defined MOF metamodels for RDF, OWL, Topic Maps, and Common Logic, with the help of a number of folks from both the OMG and Semantic Web communities. This is still a work in progress, but is relatively stable at this point (at least in terms of the metamodels). Follow on work may include a mapping from OCL to Common Logic or to something else, depending on what emerges from the rules interchange format activity that is just getting underway in the W3C. There are two other activities going on in parallel from a business rules perspective in OMG that are relevant, one is called Semantics for Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR), and the other is Production Rule Representation (PRR). SBVR was recently adopted and is being finalized in the OMG, while I believe the PRR specification is not quite as far along. SBVR is based on Object Role Modeling work by Terry Halpin and others, whereas the PRR work involves more operational rule interchange and is supported by companies such as Fair Isaac, ILOG, Pega Systems, and others. Neither of these is currently mapped to OCL, to my knowledge. There are a number of issues that need careful attention with regard to mapping OCL to Common Logic, which is what I am most familiar with, including quantifier scope, but we have not had the resources to dig into the details to date. If you are interested in getting involved, please keep in touch with me and/or Evan Wallace (NIST) who chairs the Ontology PSIG in the OMG, and we'd be delighted to have your help. Best regards, Elisa [1] http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/05-09-08.pdf Jyotishman Pathak wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Could you please provide me with pointers to on-going work for > transforming UML constraints (typically specified in OCL) into SWRL > (or any other language) ? I am also not sure what are the research > issues that need to be solved in order to have such a transformation. > Any comments ? > > Regards, > - Jyoti
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