UML models and ontologies are two knowledge representations with different strengths and
weaknesses. Until recently, they were considered unrelated research domains. However …

Computational ontologies are machine-processable structures which represent particular
domains of interest. They integrate knowledge which can be used by humans or machines …

Abstract Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de-facto standard to design
today's large-size object-oriented systems. However, focusing on multiple UML diagrams is …

Mastering the fusion of information and communication technologies with physical systems
to cyber-physical automation systems is of main concern to engineers in the industrial …

The technology of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service provides a
promising method to rapidly develop the distributed interoperable system for E-commerce …

UML diagrams are the conventional methods for visual modeling systems. Among them, the
Statechart diagrams are used to show the runtime behavior of a system, but the correctness …

Whilst Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are increasingly used in business scenarios, the
construction of enterprise ontologies and the population of KGs from existing relational data …

Based on the high expressive powers and effective reasoning services of description logics
(DLs, for short), DLs have been employed in data modeling to support the development and …

Background: UML class diagrams can be automatically validated if they are compliant with a
domain knowledge specified in a selected OWL 2 domain ontology. The method requires …

The article proposes an algorithmic method for semantic validation of UML class diagrams.
The method checks the compliance of the diagrams with the field described by the domain …