An Investigation into OWL for Concrete Syntax Specification Using UML Notations

Thomas, Anitta; Gerber, Aurona; Merwe, Alta van der

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42333-3_15

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“…Due to space limitations, the entire ontology cannot be included in this paper. Interested readers may refer to [21,22] for details about the ontology. For illustrative purposes, consider the UML concept class, which has numerous spatial patterns - Figure 3 depicts a few of them.…”

Section: An Ontology Of Spatial Patterns For Class Diagramsmentioning

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Ontology-Based Spatial Pattern Recognition in Diagrams

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Gerber²,

Merwe³

2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Diagrams are widely used in our day to day communication. A knowledge of the spatial patterns used in diagrams is essential to read and understand them. In the context of diagrams, spatial patterns mean accepted spatial arrangements of graphical and textual elements used to represent diagram-specific concepts. In order to assist with the automated understanding of diagrams by computer applications, this paper presents an ontology-based approach to recognise diagram-specific concepts from the spatial patterns in diagrams. Specifically, relevant spatial patterns of diagrams are encoded in an ontology, and the automated instance classification feature of the ontology reasoners is utilised to map spatial patterns to diagram-specific concepts depicted in a diagram. A prototype of this approach to support automated recognition of UML and domain concepts from class diagrams and its performance are also discussed in this paper. This paper concludes with a reflection of the strengths and limitations of the proposed approach.

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Section: An Ontology Of Spatial Patterns For Class Diagramsmentioning

confidence: 99%