Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary
step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than …

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in the manufacturing domain can be deployed to support
monitoring and analysis of production systems of a factory in order to improve, support, or …

Two main data models are currently used for representing knowledge and information in
computer systems. Database models, especially relational databases, have been the leader …

UML class-based models and OWL ontologies constitute modeling approaches with
different strengths and weaknesses that make them appropriate for specifying distinct …

In software engineering, the notion of unit testing was successfully introduced and applied.
Unit tests are easy manageable tests for small parts of a program–single units. They proved …

In this paper we study Graphol, a fully graphical language inspired by standard formalisms
for conceptual modeling, similar to the UML class diagram and the ER model, but equipped …

The goal of this paper is to clarify the differences between ontologies and databases. The
article describes, in a step-by-step manner, the parts in which differences occur. However …

This paper presents an approach for visually modeling OWL DL and OWL Full ontologies
based on the well-established visual modeling language UML. We discuss a metamodel for …

Many experts state that: a) specifying" all the small parts of a system" and b) correct
expected system usage, can make Agile Software Development more effective. Unified …

The next enterprise computing era will rely on the synergy between both technologies:
semantic web and model-driven software development (MDSD). The semantic web …