This lecture elaborates on RDF, RDFS, and SOAP starting from a short recap of XML, and the history of the W3C and the development of "open standard recommendations". We also compare RDF triples with DOGMA lexons. We finalise by listing shortcomings of RDFS regarding semantics, and give short overview of the history of OWL as one answer to this. A full elaboration on OWL and description logic is for another lecture.
The workshop aims at providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of ontologies to enhance Model Driven Engineering (MDE) or Model-driven software development (MDSD). More specifically, the objectives of the workshop are: To present success cases of integrated approaches; To present state-of-the-art researches covering ontologies in MDE; To encourage the modeling community to explore different aspects of ontologies like validation, verification and dynamic classification; To promote the demonstration of MDE tools using ontologies.
J. Dietrich, N. Jones, und J. Wright. Journal of Systems and Software, 81 (12):
2183--2193(2008)Best papers from the 2007 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2007), Melbourne, Australia, April 10-13, 2007, Australian Software Engineering Conference 2007.