aspects of software engineering which are widely used in industry, including UML (Unified
Modeling Language). With the advent of the Semantic Web movement [1] and the
consequent development of ontology modeling languages like OWL by the World-Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), the development of ontologies has become mainstream. Consequently,
in 2003 the OMG issued a Request for Proposal for an Ontology Development Metamodel …