scholarly journals Validation of UML Artifacts in Model Driven Engineering using Description Logics based Ontology Reasoners

2017 ◽  
Vol 171 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Ali Hanzala ◽  
Naeem Abbas
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nenad Krdzavac ◽  
Dragan Gasevic ◽  
Vladan Devedzic

This paper presents a method for implementing tableau algorithm for description logics (DLs). The architectures of the present DL reasoners such as RACER or FaCT were developed using programming languages as Java or LISP. The implementations are not based on original definition of the abstract syntax, but they require transformation of abstract syntax into concrete syntax implementation languages use. In order to address these issues, we propose the use of model-driven engineering principles for the development of a DL reasoner where a definition of a DL abstract syntax is provided by means of metamodels. The presented approach is based on the use of a MOF-based model repository and QVT-like transformations, which transform models compliant to the DL metamodel taken from the OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel specification into models compliant to the Tableau metamodel defined in this paper. .


2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Steck ◽  
Alex Lotz ◽  
Christian Schlegel

Author(s):  
Nils Weidmann ◽  
Anthony Anjorin

AbstractIn the field of Model-Driven Engineering, Triple Graph Grammars (TGGs) play an important role as a rule-based means of implementing consistency management. From a declarative specification of a consistency relation, several operations including forward and backward transformations, (concurrent) synchronisation, and consistency checks can be automatically derived. For TGGs to be applicable in realistic application scenarios, expressiveness in terms of supported language features is very important. A TGG tool is schema compliant if it can take domain constraints, such as multiplicity constraints in a meta-model, into account when performing consistency management tasks. To guarantee schema compliance, most TGG tools allow application conditions to be attached as necessary to relevant rules. This strategy is problematic for at least two reasons: First, ensuring compliance to a sufficiently expressive schema for all previously mentioned derived operations is still an open challenge; to the best of our knowledge, all existing TGG tools only support a very restricted subset of application conditions. Second, it is conceptually demanding for the user to indirectly specify domain constraints as application conditions, especially because this has to be completely revisited every time the TGG or domain constraint is changed. While domain constraints can in theory be automatically transformed to obtain the required set of application conditions, this has only been successfully transferred to TGGs for a very limited subset of domain constraints. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a search-based strategy for achieving schema compliance. We show that all correctness and completeness properties, previously proven in a setting without domain constraints, still hold when schema compliance is to be additionally guaranteed. An implementation and experimental evaluation are provided to support our claim of practical applicability.


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