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to be held at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)
November 6th - 10th, 2005 , Galway, Ireland
Description
Over the past five years there have been attempts to bring together languages and tools developed for Software Engineering (SE) with Semantic Web (SW) languages. One of the most recent of these attempts is the development of the Object Management Group"s Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM). Until recently, this work has been motivated largely by an interest to exploit the popularity and features of Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools for the creation of vocabularies and ontologies for the Semantic Web. But what are the potential benefits related to the reversal of this approach and the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of the Web Ontology Language OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools to provide badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? Certainly there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach, but consensus on the best way forward has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to explore and evaluate this area.
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