The Semantic Interoperability between Domain-Specific Conceptual Models and Ontologies
The interplay between ontologies and domain-specific conceptual modelling languages is typically concerned with the challenge of “ontological commitment” - i.e., the language is expected to have (or evaluated against) ontological qualities, in order to enforce coherence and consistency in model contents. This is a strong semantic coupling between modelling languages and ontologies. An alternative, weaker coupling will be promoted by this lecture, focusing on pragmatic semantic interoperability aspects: ontologies and modelling languages are treated here as distinct Design Science artefacts that may have some conceptual overlapping which allows applications to bridge the diagrammatic semantics with the ontological ones by resorting to technologies such as graph databases and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The lecture will present results originally proposed in the context of the ComVantage FP7 research project and further developed in follow-up projects. A minimal yet illustrative implementation example will be discussed, leading towards a proposed vision of “enterprise model”-aware information systems.
Lecture at NEMO2017
Date/Time: Monday, July 24, 2017 at 10:00