Thomas, AGerber, AJVan der Merwe, A2016-08-192016-08-192015-11Thomas, A, Gerber, AJ and Van der Merwe, A. 2015. Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology. In: 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-14 November 2015978-989-758-158-8http://www.cair.za.net/sites/default/files/outputs/Paper.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/87157th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-14 November 2015Diagrams are often studied as visual languages with an abstract and a concrete syntax (concrete syntax is often referred to as visual syntax), where the latter contains the visual representations of the concepts in the former. A formal specification of the concrete syntax is useful in diagram processing applications as well as in achieving unambiguous understanding of diagrams. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a commonly used modeling language to represent software models using its diagrams. Class and package diagrams are two diagrams of UML. The motivation for this work is twofold; UML lacks a formal visual syntax specification and ontologies are under-explored for visual syntax specifications. The work in this paper, therefore, explores using ontologies for visual syntax specifications by specifying the visual syntax of a set of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology in the Web ontology language, OWL. The reasoning features of the ontology reasoners are then used to verify the visual syntax specification. Besides formally encoding the visual syntax of numerous UML constructs, the work also demonstrates the general value of using OWL for visual syntax specifications.enVisual Syntax SpecificationUnified modeling languageUML class diagramsUMLML package diagramsProtegeOWLOntologiesOntology reasonerConference PresentationThomas, A., Gerber, A., & Van der Merwe, A. (2015). Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology. Science and Technology Publications, Lda. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8715Thomas, A, AJ Gerber, and A Van der Merwe. "Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology." (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8715Thomas A, Gerber A, Van der Merwe A, Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology; Science and Technology Publications, Lda; 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8715 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Thomas, A AU - Gerber, AJ AU - Van der Merwe, A AB - Diagrams are often studied as visual languages with an abstract and a concrete syntax (concrete syntax is often referred to as visual syntax), where the latter contains the visual representations of the concepts in the former. A formal specification of the concrete syntax is useful in diagram processing applications as well as in achieving unambiguous understanding of diagrams. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a commonly used modeling language to represent software models using its diagrams. Class and package diagrams are two diagrams of UML. The motivation for this work is twofold; UML lacks a formal visual syntax specification and ontologies are under-explored for visual syntax specifications. The work in this paper, therefore, explores using ontologies for visual syntax specifications by specifying the visual syntax of a set of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology in the Web ontology language, OWL. The reasoning features of the ontology reasoners are then used to verify the visual syntax specification. Besides formally encoding the visual syntax of numerous UML constructs, the work also demonstrates the general value of using OWL for visual syntax specifications. DA - 2015-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Visual Syntax Specification KW - Unified modeling language KW - UML class diagrams KW - UML KW - ML package diagrams KW - Protege KW - OWL KW - Ontologies KW - Ontology reasoner LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2015 SM - 978-989-758-158-8 T1 - Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology TI - Visual syntax of UML class and package diagram constructs as an ontology UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8715 ER -