@inproceedings{1013539, title = {Converting UML to OWL ontologies}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Dragan Gasevic and Dragan Djuric and Vladan Devedzic and Violeta Damjanovi}, booktitle = {WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers \& posters}, pages = {488--489}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1013539}, year = {2004}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ae36b691fb9e18df49311191bb1a2a59/wnpxrz}, description = {Converting UML to OWL ontologies}, abstract = {This paper presents automatic generation of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) from an UML model. The solution is based on an MDA-defined architecture for ontology development and the Ontology UML Profile (OUP). A conversion, that we present here, transforms an ontology from its OUP definition (i.e. XML Metadata Interchange -- XMI) into OWL description. Accordingly, we illustrate how an OUP-developed ontology can be shared with ontological engineering tools (i.e. Protégé).}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1013367.1013539}, isbn = {1-58113-912-8}, location = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {imported ontology owl uml } }