UMLBased Ontology Toolset

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UML-Based Ontology Toolset

• Dr. Paul Kogut
• Lockheed Martin
• Management Data Systems
• Valley Forge, PA

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What is Hot?

• HotDAML entries AeroDAML, ConsVISor, DAML
  VisuaLinks
• Evaluation of UBOT tools in context of DAML-S
  application
• distributed and cooperative satellite imagery
  processing and analysis
• leverage NIMA and NASA tools
• dynamic composition and execution of services
• combining data layers
• piecing images together
• 3D perspective scene generation
• OMG Software Services Grid Workshop - July 10-11
• summit meeting between OMG, W3C, Grid and
  e-commerce communities
• DAML-S presentation - Mark Burstein (David Martin
  and Sheila McIlraith)
• OMG Model Driven Architecture(MDA) - platform
  independent models
• Is MDA competition for DAML or is it synergistic?

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Layered Architecture Imagery and Mapping
Service Composition and Execution
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Challenges and Obstacles

• Resistance to adoption of DAMLOIL
• Use of models at runtime is alien concept to
  mainstream software engineers
• What does the increased expressiveness of DAML
  buy me?
• How does DAML fit with OMG Model Driven
  Architecture?
• Extending UML to Support Ontology Engineering for
  the Semantic Web UML2001
• Barriers to adoption of DAMLOIL
• Desperately need Agents and Ontologies textbook
  targeted at practitioners
• What agent infrastructure should I choose?
• OAA, JADE, FIPA-OS, CoABS Grid, EMAA, XSB,
  JESS...
• Technical issues
• which words in a text should be annotated?
• web search vs. complex question answering
• what is a good graphical representation for
  manual annotation refinement?
• how can theorem provers be transparently
  integrated into a DAML consistency checker tool?