An Automatable Approach for SBVR to OWL 2 Mappings

REYNARES, EMILIANO; CALIUSCO, MARÍA LAURA; GALLI, MARÍA ROSA

Montevideo

Conferencia; XVI Conferencia Iberoamericana de Ingeniería de Software CIbSE 2013; 2013

Universidad ORT Uruguay - Universidad de la República - Antel

The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules(SBVR) has been conceived by OMG to provide business people a way to semantically describe business concepts and specify business rules. However, benets of having a mean of mapping SBVR expressions to ontology statements have already been recognized. Some of the most important applications of such mappings are: (1) using of ontology reasoners to prove the consistency of business domain information, (2) generation of an ontology intended to be used in the analysis stage of a software development process, and (3) the possibility of encapsulate the declarative specication of business knowledge into information software systems by means of an implemented ontology. Although previous proposals have presented some transformations, an exhaustive and automatable approach for them still is lacking. This work presents a broad and detailed set of transformations that allows the automatable generation of an OWL 2 ontology from the SBVR specications of a business domain. Such transformations are rooted on the structural specication of both standards and are depicted along the paper through a case study.