Abstract
Ontologies are expected to play an important role in many application domains, as well as in software engineering in general. One problem with using ontologies within software engineering is that while UML, a widely used standard for specifying and constructing the models for a software-intensive system, has a four-layer metamodeling architecture, the standard OWL Web Ontology Language does not support reasoning over layered metamodels. OWL2 provides simple metamodeling by using a punning approach, however, the interpretation function is different based on the context, which leads to non-intuitive results. The OWL FA Language has a well defined metamodeling architecture. However, there is no study and tool for support reasoning over OWL FA. In this paper, we briefly discuss some reasoning tasks in OWL FA. We also provide OWL FA Tool kit, a simple tool kit for manipulating and reasoning with OWL FA.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
| Volume | 529 |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Oct 2009 |
| Event | 6th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, OWLED 2009 - Co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2009 and the 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2009 - Chantilly, VA, United States Duration: 23 Oct 2009 → 24 Oct 2009 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-529/ (Link to Conference Proceedings) |