TWOMDE 2009 at MoDELS 2009
The second edition of the TWOMDE workshop series will take place co-located with MoDELS 2009 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Transformation and weaving ontologies in model driven engineering (MDE/MDA)
The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engineering has gained more attention with commercial and scientific initiatives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explore how Semantic Web and Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge representation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initiatives are the specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel, the OWL 1.1 Metamodel, the introduction to Ontology Driven Architectures and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers.
Nevertheless, many questions come to light, as Model Driven Engineering (MDE) or Model Driven Architecture (MDA) spreads. Disciplines like model transformation and domain specific languages become essential in order to support different kinds of models in a model driven environment. Understanding the role of OWL/RDFS ontologies in these fields is crucial to leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How can the scientific and technical results around OWL/RDFS ontologies, ontology languages and their corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in Model Driven Engineering (MDE) or Model Driven Architecture (MDA)? What is the role of OWL/RDFS ontologies in supporting model transformation? How can OWL/RDFS ontologies improve designing domain specific languages? Are current query languages able to query both kinds of models?
Discussions about these and related questions will be supported by the proposed workshop.
intended audience
The intended audience embraces members of the modeling community with experience or interest in Model Driven Engineering and in Knowledge Representation. Specifically, but not only, the participation of experts in technologies related with UML, MOF, MDA, ATL, QVT, RDF or OWL is highly welcome.
OBJECTIVES
The workshop aims at providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of OWL/RDFS ontologies to enhance Model Driven Engineering (MDE/MDA). More specifically, the objectives of the workshop are:
- To present success cases of integrated approaches;
- To present state-of-the-art researches covering OWL/RDFS ontologies in MDE/MDA;
- To encourage the modeling community to explore different aspects of ontologies like validation, verification and dynamic classification;
- To promote the demonstration of MDE/MDA tools using OWL/RDFS ontologies.
important dates
- Submission: 20.07.2008
- Notification: 28.08.2008
- Camera Ready: 12.09.2008
- Registration: see MoDELS
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TWOMDE Proceedings
Online proceedings available on CEUR-WS.org/Vol-395.
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