Abstract The paper analyzes UML, the well known software engineering tool, from the knowledge engineering perspective. The goal of the paper is to evaluate UML as the possible desi...
OWL Ontology language can be very expressive. This could provide difficulty in ontology understanding process. We belief, that an ontology visualization equipped with intuitive int...
: From a maintenance perspective, only software that is well understood can evolve in a controlled and high-quality manner. Software evolution itself is a knowledge-driven process ...
Formalizing the ontological commitment of a logical language means offering a way to specify the intended meaning of its vocabulary by constraining the set of its models, giving e...
In this paper, we describe the concept of ontological design. We show how ontologies can be used as cognitive maps of complex, ill-structured, plastic problems. They can be used t...