Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment

Reynares, Emiliano; Caliusco, María Laura; Galli, Marı́a Rosa

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.054

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“…The mappings proposed in this work are rooted on the structural specification of the source and target languages. With the aim of obtaining empirical evidence about the feasibility of the approach an experiment has been performed [22]. The exploratory experiment designed has allowed to compare the performance and attitudes of some groups of students building an ontology based on SBVR business rules expressions with another set of groups building an ontology based on traditional glossaries describing domain entities.…”

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SBVR to OWL 2 Mappings: An Automatable and Structural-Rooted Approach

Reynares¹,

Caliusco²,

Galli

2014

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The wide applicability of mapping business rules expressions to ontology statements have been recently recognized. Some of the most important applications are: (1) using of on- tology reasoners to prove the consistency of business domain information, (2) generation of an ontology intended to be used in the analysis stage of a software development process, and (3) the possibility of encapsulate the declarative specification of business knowledge into information software systems by means of an implemented ontology. The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) supports that approach by provid- ing business people with a linguistic way to semantically describe business concepts and specify business rules in an independent way of any information system design. Although previous work have presented some proposals, an exhaustive and automatable approach for them is still lacking. This work presents a broad and detailed set of transformations that allows the automatable generation of an ontology implemented in OWL 2 from the SBVR specifications of a business domain. Such transformations are rooted on the struc- tural specification of both standards and are depicted through a case study. A real case validation example was performed, approaching the feasibility of the mappings by the quality assessment of the developed ontology.

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SBVR to OWL 2 Mappings: An Automatable and Structural-Rooted Approach

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Galli

2014

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“…Este trabajo representa una réplica diferenciada del experimento descripto en Reynares, Caliusco & Galli (2014a), lo cual permite evaluar el grado de generalización de los resultados obtenidos con respecto a la factibilidad técnica de SBVR como lenguaje de modelado para el desarrollo de ontologías.…”

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Evaluación empírica del mapeo de reglas de negocio para el desarrollo de ontologías

Reynares¹,

Caliusco²,

Galli

2014

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Resumen: Las metodologías de desarrollo de ontologías usadas como un artefacto de software aún constituyen un campo abierto de investigación. Esto se debe a la inmadurez de las metodologías actuales; donde las más reconocidas se basan en UML por ser éste un lenguaje maduro para los ingenieros de software. Trabajos recientes proponen el mapeo de expresiones SBVR a sentencias ontológicas como técnica de desarrollo, pero hasta el momento existe sólo un estudio empírico que compara técnicas basadas en SBVR y UML. El presente trabajo analiza la factibilidad técnica del mapeo SBVR a OWL 2 presentando una primera réplica diferenciada del experimento original variando los enfoques considerados y el tamaño y composición de las unidades experimentales, comparando técnicas de desarrollo basadas en SBVR y ODM. Los resultados obtenidos permiten sostener la factibilidad técnica de los mapeos SBVR a OWL 2, como una técnica de desarrollo de ontologías por ingenieros de software.Palabras-clave: evaluación empírica; experimento; desarrollo de ontologías; mapeo; regla de negocio Empirical evaluation of business rules mappings for ontology development Abstract:The methodologies for the development of ontologies aimed to be used as software artifacts remain to be an open research area. Although the most widely recognized are rooted on UML given the acceptance of that language in the community of software engineering, none of them are fully mature. Recent works propose the mapping of SBVR expressions to ontology statements as a building technique, but just an empirical study comparing SBVR and UML-rooted techniques has been performed until now. This work analyzes the technical feasibility of SBVR to OWL 2 mappings by depicting a first differentiated replication of the original experiment varying the treatments, the size and composition of the experimental units, and comparing the performance of SBVR and ODM-based techniques. The findings allow sustaining the technical feasibility of the SBVR to OWL 2 mappings as an ontology development technique able to be applied by the software engineering community.

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“…These possibilities became stronger with the appearance of Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules [7], [8], which has its roots in ORM2 [9], [10] and, by the authors' intent, includes options for representing ontologies (currently, OWL 2 [11]). Several authors have described and implemented transformations from SBVR to OWL 2 [12], [13], [14] (the more exhaustive list of works was analysed in [15]). The purpose of such transformations was not only for business userfriendly creation of ontologies, but also for giving a possibility to check the consistency of SBVR business vocabularies and business rules with ontology reasoners.…”

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“…For supporting the fourth criterion, we have defined requirements for writing SBVR business vocabularies and business rules that allow to obtain consistent and normalized OWL 2 ontologies [17]. It is worth to mention that the third and fourth criteria, to our knowledge, yet have not been deeply examined in related works [12], [13], [14]. The fifth criterion was ensured via language independent transformation rules, which can be adapted to similar languages by setting the defined set of keywords.…”

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Experimental Investigation of Transformations From SBVR Business Vocabularies and Business Rules to Owl 2 Ontologies

Karpovic¹,

Ablonskis²,

Nemuraite³

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The goal of the paper is to analyse the relevance of the proposed transformation from business vocabularies and business rules, based on Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), to the corresponding OWL 2 ontologies. The transformation was aimed to be model driven, lossless and reversible; adaptable to English, Lithuanian and other similar natural languages; covering transformable SBVR concepts and as much as possible OWL 2 concepts, especially those that are important for inference, and supporting the consistency and normalization of resulting ontologies. The paper presents a detailed comparison of the proposed solution with the most advanced, to our knowledge, related works and the experimental investigation of the implemented transformation prototype with nine SBVR business vocabularies and business rule sets with regards to the defined desirable criteria.

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Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

SBVR to OWL 2 Mappings: An Automatable and Structural-Rooted Approach

SBVR to OWL 2 Mappings: An Automatable and Structural-Rooted Approach

Evaluación empírica del mapeo de reglas de negocio para el desarrollo de ontologías

Experimental Investigation of Transformations From SBVR Business Vocabularies and Business Rules to Owl 2 Ontologies

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