Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs

Evermann, Jöerg; Wand, Yair

doi:10.1007/3-540-45581-7_27

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“…First, ontologies can be evaluated to determine how well they account for users' experiences with different grammars. Second, scripts generated via grammars using ontologically based modeling rules (e.g., Evermann andWoo 1993) can be evaluated to determine their usefulness.…”

Section: Some Future Research Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling—A Research Agenda

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Weber

2002

Information Systems Research

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W ithin the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptualmodeling work is important because it facilitates early detection and correction of system development errors. It also plays an increasingly important role in activities like business process reengineering and documentation of best-practice data and process models in enterprise resource planning systems. Yet little research has been undertaken on many aspects of conceptual modeling. In this paper, we propose a framework to motivate research that addresses the following fundamental question: How can we model the world to better facilitate our developing, implementing, using, and maintaining more valuable information systems? The framework comprises four elements: conceptual-modeling grammars, conceptual-modeling methods, conceptual-modeling scripts, and conceptual-modeling contexts. We provide examples of the types of research that have already been undertaken on each element and illustrate research opportunities that exist. (Conceptual Modeling; Information Systems Development; Ontology)

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Section: Some Future Research Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, UML was created to support software design. Evermann and Wand (2001) show how UML can be extended to facilitate conceptual modeling by mapping its constructs to ontological concepts. (4) Better use of grammars.…”

Section: Some Future Research Opportunitiesmentioning

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Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling—A Research Agenda

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Weber

2002

Information Systems Research

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“…To cite one example: in a series of papers (e.g. [15,16]) the proponents of the BWW (BungeWand-Weber) approach claim that universals whose instances are properties (moments) should not be modeled as classes in a conceptual model of the domain. This claim is contested by Veres and Hitchman in [17] who employ Jakendoff's Semantic Structures [18] as well as empirical results from modeling sections with practioneers.…”

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On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language

Guizzardi

Wagner

Herre³

2004

Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web

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Abstract. There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers [1,2] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying foundational ontology, proposed in [3,4], to evaluate the ontological correctness of a conceptual UML class model and to develop guidelines for how the constructs of the UML should be used in conceptual modeling and ontology representation. This paper can be seen as a continuation of this work, in which we focus on analyzing the UML metaconcepts of classes, attributes, data types and associations from an ontological point of view.

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“…The approach found in the literature that is closest to the one presented here is the socalled BWW approach presented in (e.g., [5,11,14]). In these articles, the authors report their results in mapping common constructs of conceptual modeling to an upper level ontology.…”

Section: A Critical Comparison To the Bww Approachmentioning

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“…Thus, in BWW, only things (objects) possess properties. In particular, for the case of relational properties, this dictum leads to the following modeling principle: "Associations should not be modeled as classes" (rule 7 in [14]). This claim is not only perceived as counterintuitive by conceptual modeling practitioners (as shown by [16,17]), but, as discussed in depth [1,2], it is also controversial from a metaphysical point of view and puts BWW in a singular position among the foundational ontologies developed in the realm of computer science.…”

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Statecharts and State Chart XML as a Modeling Technique in Web Engineering

Brüggemann-Klein

Sayih

Keskivov

Balisage Series on Markup Technologies

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Abstract. In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been successfully used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling grammars and models. In this article, we continue this work by using this foundational ontology to provide real-world semantics and sound modeling guidelines for one of the most fundamental (and yet one of the most problematic) constructs in conceptual modeling, namely, the relationship type. In addition, we systematically compare our approach with a classical ontological treatment of this construct in the literature, provided by the BWW framework.

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Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs

Cited by 59 publications

References 11 publications

Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling—A Research Agenda

Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling—A Research Agenda

On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language

Statecharts and State Chart XML as a Modeling Technique in Web Engineering

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