1. Introduction

2. Semantic Web To create a universal medium for the exchange of data.
It is envisaged to smoothly interconnect personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global sharing of commercial, scientific and cultural data. Facilities to put machine-understandable data on the Web are quickly becoming a high priority for many organizations, individuals and communities.
(Semantic Web Activity Statement, 2006)
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3. Modeling-Driven (Software) Engineering
Modeling-Driven Engineering addresses platform complexity and the inability of third-generation (programming) languages to alleviate this complexity and express domain concepts effectively.
Modeling is the future …
And the promise here is that you write a lot less code, that you have a model of the business process …
(Bill Gates, 2004)
(Schmidt, 2006)
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4. Introduction
Synergy of different research fields for software engineering [Devedžić, 2002]
multidisciplinary approach
software patterns, ontologies, databases, …
recent technologies
eXtensible Markup languages
Semantic Web and ontologies
Model Driven Engineering and related standards
UML, MOF, XMI
developing in parallel, but by different communities!
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5. Introduction
A technical space is a working context with a set of associated concepts, body of knowledge, tools, required skills, and possibilities. Although some technical spaces are difficult to define, they can be easily recognized (e.g. MDA, ontologies). In order to get a synergy of different technical spaces we should create bridges between them.
Kurtev et al, 2002
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6. Introduction Bridging Semantic Web and MDA Semantic Web ontologies
Model Driven Engineering
models
models
Unified modeling (ontology) language
Semantic Web
Model Driven Engineering
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7. Some Differences Semantic Web and MDA MDE models Semantic Web
models are abstractions
they eliminate or simplify concepts and relationships
specification and description
Semantic Web
intended for knowledge representation
“if something is known, it should be able to be recorded in a machine-interpretable manner”
everything is worth capturing
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8. Some Similarities Semantic Web and MDE UML models ontologies
classes, attributes, relations, inheritance, …
ontologies
classes, properties, relations, inheritance, …
semantically different, but equivalent!
model the real world!!!!
build the next generation of software
in introduction – insert a picture about SE and ontologies development history or numbered important works – Chandra (OO and ont. Relations, different authors discussed problem, OMG’s RFP, initial submissions, integrated submission, …)
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