Uma abordagem baseada em padrões para construção de modelos conceituais em OntoUML

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing interest for well-founded conceptual modeling languages in support to domain analysis in Software Engineering. In this context, this work is a contribution to ontology-driven conceptual modeling, in general, and to the OntoUML language, in particular. The work contributes to this approach by proposing a catalog of Ontology Design Patterns for OntoUML, and a set of procedures for supporting the pattern-based construction of OntoUML models using the foundational patterns in this catalog. Finally, the work implements in a computational tool the complete mechanism that allows building OntoUML models by applying these design patterns following the proposed procedures.