TY  - GEN
A1  - Scheglmann, Stefan
A1  - Scherp, Ansgar
A1  - Staab, Steffen
T1  - Model-driven Generation of APIs for OWL-based Ontologies
N2  - Existing tools for generating application programming interfaces (APIs) for ontologies lack sophisticated support for mapping the logics-based concepts of the ontology to an appropriate object-oriented implementation of the API. Such a mapping has to overcome the fundamental differences between the semantics described in the ontology and the pragmatics, i.e., structure, functionalities, and behavior implemented in the API. Typically, concepts from the ontology are mapped one-to-one to classes in the targeted programming language. Such a mapping only produces concept representations but not an API at the desired level of granularity expected by an application developer. We present a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) process to generate customized APIs for ontologies. This API generation is based on the semantics defined in the ontology but also leverages additional information the ontology provides. This can be the inheritance structure of the ontology concepts, the scope of relevance of an ontology concept, or design patterns defined in the ontology.
T3  - Arbeitsberichte, FB Informatik - 2010,7 
KW  - Model-Driven Engineering
KW  - application programming interfaces
KW  - ontology
Y1  - 2010
UR  - https://kola.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/438
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kola-4388
ER  -