Re: RDF ontology for describing reusable software components

Andrei,

Thank you for the pointer.  Very interesting indeed.  I'm a bit confused
as to the thrust of the Ubot project, and was hoping you could help me
out.  It would appear that the main goal is "to build a tool-set that
supports: creation, extension and consistency checking of DAML
ontologies [and] DAML annotation of information resources for agents". 
It seems that they are using UML as a tool to create DAML, to complement
its use as a tool for describing software.  The diagram you pointed to
is intriguing (showing a UML (meta-?)model for software components), but
I wasn't able to see how it fit in with the rest of the project's
goals.  Any thoughts?  Thank you,

   David Saff

> Andrei Lopatenko wrote:
> 
> 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
>  and it allows to describe a semantic (really very weakly now) of
> elements to reason about satisfaction of user needs, re-usability, etc
> 
> sorry for late answering, I was offline
> 
> 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/

Received on Saturday, 6 April 2002 11:49:46 UTC