Title
UML Style Graphical Notation and Editor for OWL 2
Abstract
OWL is becoming the most widely used knowledge representation language. It has several textual notations but no standard graphical notation apart from verbose ODM UML. We propose an extension to UML class diagrams (heavyweight extension) that allows a compact OWL visualization. The compactness is achieved through the native power of UML class diagrams extended with optional Manchester encoding for class expressions thus largely eliminating the need for explicit anonymous class visualization. To use UML class diagram notation we had to modify its semantics to support Open World Assumption that is central to OWL. We have implemented the proposed compact visualization for OWL 2 in a UML style graphical editor. The editor contains a rich set of graphical layout algorithms for automatic ontology visualization, search facilities, zooming, graphical refactoring and interoperability with Protege 4.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-16101-8_9
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
UML class diagram,visualization
Notation,Programming language,Unified Modeling Language,UML tool,Visualization,Computer science,Open-world assumption,Applications of UML,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Class diagram,Web Ontology Language
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
64
1865-1348
20
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.81
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janis Barzdins119935.69
Guntis Barzdins212118.62
Karlis Cerans331448.74
Renars Liepins48010.16
Arturs Sprogis57511.47