UML for ontology development
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چکیده
Ontologies are becoming increasingly important because they provide the critical semantic foundation for many rapidly expanding technologies such as software agents, e-commerce and knowledge management (McGuinness, 2001). The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been widely adopted by the software engineering community and its scope is broadening to include more diverse modeling tasks. This paper discusses the recent convergence of UML and ontologies and suggests some possible future directions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Knowledge Eng. Review
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002