- From: Andrei Lopatenko <alopatenko@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:41:36 +0100
- To: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
translation of UML into RDF were investigated in works of S. Melnik http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/uml/ Ubot project http://ubot.lockheedmartin.com/ also see works of Franconi on Conceptual Modeling and descriptiong logics and general review of DL for conceptual modeling at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/dl/course/tutorial/iswc-02-tutorial.pdf The task of "integration" UML and traditional conceptual modeling with Semantic Web technologies or Knowledge Representation is very big and seems unfeasible, and I think it can be separated in a few parts to be implemented Some of them 1 use of Knowledge Representation technologies, especially reasoning to get implicit knowledge for UML/ER models or find inconsistencies in models - see ICOM project http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/icom/ 2 re-engineer traditional applications described in UML diagrammes into Semantic Web ontology based applications to make them "open" see UBOT project 3 re-use of conceptual modeling practises and methodologies, some of which are very tested for ontology development 4 extend ontology languages to describe behavior or better describe integrity rules + emrbace all levels of modeling epist., conceptual, logical, etc in one framework For me all these parts are very different and require very different approaches for UML + SW integration Best regards Andrei Lopatenko Information Management Group Department of Computer Science University of Manchester A chairman of CERIF Task Group euroCRIS conc http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lopatena/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net> Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: Re: RDF ontology for describing reusable software components > > From: Andrei Lopatenko > > > > > See please ontology developed in UBOT project of > > > LockheedMartin UML representation here > > > http://ubot.lockheedmartin.com/ubot/lessons/images/sw_artifact.gif > > >They have tools for UML to DAML conversion Think it maybe > > > high relevant for you because it allows to describe > > > relations between software components to reason > > > if you need to install something what you need to install before, etc > > > > This is great! Where can we find a rdf schema for UML? > > Good heavens! > > Talk about Pandora fiddling with the lock of her box. > > I am actually giving a talk about where UML/MDA meets XML meets RDF at XML > Europe, and I've put a great deal of thought into this. > > What is really needed is an RDFS for MOF, not UML. Then, through the UML > meta-model to MOF mapping, we could support UML as well. This is the approach > in XML, and, in fact, XMI is the most likely starting point if we want to > formalize such a thing. > > The problem is that XMI, MOF and the UML meta-model are complex beyond your > most perverse imaginings. This would be a truly titanic project. > > However, it is important enough that I hope the OMG and W3C are interested in > sponsoring/conducting such work. > > > -- > Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant > uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 720 320 2046 > Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com > 4735 East Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA > XML strategy, XML tools (http://4Suite.org), knowledge management > Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): > http://www.xmlconference.com/ > >
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