Ontologies are becoming increasingly important because they provide the critical
semantic foundation
for many rapidly expanding technologies such as software agents, e-commerce and knowledge
management (McGuinness, 2002). The Unified Modelling Language (UML)1 has been widely adopted
by the software engineering community and its scope is broadening to include more diverse modelling
tasks. This paper discusses the recent convergence of UML and ontologies and suggests some possible
future directions.
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