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MDSW 2004 was the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring researchers and practitioners in knowledge representation and reasoning together with Model Driven Architecture® (MDA) practitioners. The focus of this initial workshop was on how the marriage of Model Driven Architecture with knowledge representation and reasoning technology can dramatically improve current approaches to ontology and knowledge base development and, at the same time, enable next generation enterprise computing by automating business semantics interchange and execution. Researchers in knowledge representation and the Semantic Web have been defining tools and methodologies that make it possible to formally capture semantic knowledge. Once captured, additional automation can leverage this knowledge to streamline the alignment of information models that is a prerequisite to information exchange among multiple parties. Independently, there has been quite a bit of work on model-driven schema and data translation that obviates the need for detailed hand coding of syntactic transformations, and this work is now beginning to be combined synergistically with semantic alignment techniques. Furthermore, MDA has been promoting the concept of using invariant rules, preconditions, and post-conditions when describing service interfaces, as a means of formalizing the semantics of a service’s behavior rather than formalizing merely an operation signature.
The papers first introduce the notion of a Model Driven Semantic Web in the context of using MOF and UML based approaches to ontology definition. Then, members of the joint submission team for the OMG’s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) specification offer glimpses into the metamodels and approach to their ongoing work. Papers reflecting on some of the critical disconnects and possible solutions in language mappings provide additional insight. Finally, several unique applications that leverage Semantic Web and MDA technologies were presented.
Title: The Model Driven Semantic Web
Authors: David Frankel, Patrick Hayes, Elisa Kendall, and Deborah McGuinness
Organizations: David Frankel Consulting, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition - University of West Florida, Sandpiper Software, and Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Presentation (150k PowerPoint file),
Paper (63k PDF file)
Title: On the Unification of MDA and Web-based Knowledge Representation Technologies
Author: Colin Atkinson
Organization: Lehrstuhl für Softwaretechnik, Universität Mannheim
Presentation (443k PowerPoint file),
Paper (69k PDF file)
Title: Major Influences on the Design of the ODM
Authors: Daniel T. Chang and Elisa Kendall
Organizations: IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory and Sandpiper Software
Presentation (229k PowerPoint file),
Paper (65k PDF file)
Title: A Description Logic for Use as the ODM Core
Authors: Patrick Emery and Lewis Hart
Organization: AT&T Government Solutions, Inc.
Presentation (415k PowerPoint file),
Paper (51k PDF file)
Title: Metamodels for RDF Schema and OWL
Authors: Daniel T. Chang and Elisa Kendall
Organizations: IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory and Sandpiper Software
Presentation (173k PowerPoint file),
Paper (55k PDF file)
Title: Including Topic Maps in the Ontology Definition Meta-Model
Authors: Patrick Emery and Lewis Hart
Organization: AT&T Government Solutions, Inc.
Presentation (364k PowerPoint file),
Paper (35k PDF file)
Title: Simple Common Logic: A Constraint Language for the ODM
Authors: David Frankel, Patrick Hayes, Elisa Kendall, and Deborah McGuinness
Organizations: David Frankel Consulting, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition - University of West Florida, Sandpiper Software, and Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Presentation (155k PowerPoint file),
Paper (60k PDF file)
Title: Issues in Mapping Metamodels in the Ontology Definition Metamodel
Authors: Robert M. Colomb, Anna Gerber, Michael Lawley
Organizations: The University of Queensland, Australia and Distributed Systems Research Centre (DSTC)
Presentation (171k PowerPoint file),
Paper (39k PDF file)
Title: Experiences and Issues in Converting Data and Object Modeling Languages to OWL
Author: Evan Wallace
Organization: US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Title: An MDA-Based Approach for Facilitating Adoption of Semantic Web Service Technology
Authors: Gerald C. Gannod and John T.E. Timm
Organization: Arizona State University
Presentation (86k PowerPoint file),
Paper (40k PDF file)
Title: SemanticWare: An EMF-Compatible RDF Infrastructure
Authors: Guo Tong Xie, Shixia Liu, Zhuo Zhang, Li Ma, Yue Pan, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, Li Qin Shen
Organization: IBM Research Division, China Research Laboratory
Presentation (2,778k PowerPoint file),
Paper (86k PDF file)
Title: Ontology Driven Software Development in the Context of the Semantic Web: An Example Scenario with Protégé/OWL
Author: Holger Knublauch
Organization: Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University
Presentation (2,067k PowerPoint file),
Paper (40k PDF file)
Call for Participation (51k PDF file)
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