An Automated Transformation from OntoUML to OWL and SWRL.

OntoUML and OWL are ontology languages appropriated to different knowledge representation levels. In order to have better knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities in OWL ontologies, an Ontology Engineering should be used – which corresponds to the transformation of a conceptual model ontology language, such as OntoUML, to a computational ontology language, such as OWL. This paper aims to bridge the expressivity gap between these languages through a Model Driven Architecture automated transformation from OntoUML to OWL with SWRL rules that contributes to (i) make easier the OWL creation from OntoUML, (ii) eliminate the human errors in this process, (iii) improve the resultant OWL ontology semantics.