Transforming ontology axioms to information processing rules – an MDA based approach

Abstract

In knowledge-based information systems development ontologies are used to represent domain knowledge and transform them to the components of an information system. However, the ontology-based development of application domain rules, constraining or directing different aspects of a domain, is not defined in a formal manner and is required to be developed. In this paper, the authors propose an MDA-based method for transforming ontology axioms to application domain rules. Such rules can be consecutively transformed to information processing rules and implemented by executable rules in a software component of an information system. The paper illustrates the proposed method by applying it to transform Protégé ontology axioms to OCL constraints, which are the part of a UML class diagram.