Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL

Colin Puleston; Bijan Parsia; James Cunningham; Alan Rector

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_9

Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL

Colin Puleston, Bijan Parsia, James Cunningham, Alan Rector

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The Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a modelling paradigm that is especially well suited for developing models of large, structurally complex domains such as those found in Health Care and the Life Sciences. OWL's declarative nature combined with powerful reasoning tools has effectively supported the development of very large and complex anatomy, disease, and clinical ontologies. OWL, however, is not a programming language, so using these models in applications necessitates both a technical means of integrating OWL models with programs and considerable methodological sophistication in knowing how to integrate them. In this paper, we present an analytical framework for evaluating various OWL-Java combination approaches. We have developed a software framework for what we call hybrid modelling, that is, building models in which part of the model exists and is developed directly in Java and part of the model exists and is developed directly in OWL. We analyse the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid modelling both in comparison to other approaches and by means of a case study of a large medical records system. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)\|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	130-145
Number of pages	15
Volume	5318
ISBN (Print)	3540885633, 9783540885634
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008
Event	7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008 - Karlsruhe Duration: 1 Jul 2008 → … http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-401/

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Conference	7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008
City	Karlsruhe
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Puleston, C., Parsia, B., Cunningham, J., & Rector, A. (2008). Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. (Vol. 5318, pp. 130-145). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_9

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Puleston, C, Parsia, B , Cunningham, J & Rector, A 2008, Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. vol. 5318, Springer Nature, pp. 130-145, 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, 1/07/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_9

Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL. / Puleston, Colin; Parsia, Bijan ; Cunningham, James et al.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 5318 Springer Nature, 2008. p. 130-145.

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Puleston C, Parsia B , Cunningham J, Rector A. Integrating object-oriented and ontological representations: A case study in Java and OWL. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 5318. Springer Nature. 2008. p. 130-145 doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_9

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