Ontology-based Model Synchronisation

Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering 2010.

计算机科学;

Federico Rieckhof ; Mirko Seifert ; Uwe Amann

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学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Models are the central artifact in Model-Driven Software De-velopment (MDSD). Being dened by meta models, they expose a strict syntactic structure. This property allows for processing models mechan- ically and using generic tools for arbitrary models. However, the well- known meta modelling languages (e.g., Essential MOF (EMOF)) do not have a formal semantical foundation. Rather, the semantics of models is dened implicitly and informal in respective specication documents. To resolve this restriction, the integration of models and ontologies has been proposed earlier [1]. In contrast to models, ontologies do have a formal grounding and allow for more sophisticated reasoning about the information represented therein. This paper presents an approach to employ the ontological representa- tion of models for synchronising changes across related models. Existing ideas from ontology mapping and alignment are applied to model syn- chronisation to investigate to what extent these technologies can be used