A Comparison of UML and OWL in the Travel Domain
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Recent research has focused towards determining the efficacy of using UML as an ontology modelling language [6, 7, 8, 12]. In this paper we compare the use of UML with the Web Ontology Language – OWL for modelling the travel domain. One conclusion resulting from this study is that OWL and UML were devised with different motivations, and for supporting different types of application domains. Owl benefits from a solid theoretical basis in description logic, which means it has a well defined semantics, formal properties are well understood, and there are known reasoning algorithms and implementations of the language. In addition to the model comparison we propose an ontology quality framework. The quality framework is one step towards defining quality measures for ontology modelling.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004