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Metamodelling and Ontologies( ∗ )

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Metamodelling plays an interesting role in MDSD. Following the discussions on metamodelling in Sect. 2.2.2, this chapter presents technologies on integrating metamodelling and ontologies. On the one hand, there are metamodels for standard ontology languages, such as OWL 2. On the other hand, there have been efforts enriching standard ontology languages with metamodelling capabilities. Chapter 11 will provide further discussions on metamodelling on how it can be useful for ontology-integrated modelling.

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    To simplify the presentation, we do not distinguish datatype names and datatype URIrefs here.

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  1. University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Gerd Gröner & Tobias Walter

  2. University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen, UK

    Nophadol Jekjantuk & Jeff Z. Pan

  3. FUMEC University, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Fernando Silva Parreiras

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  1. , Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB243UE, United Kingdom

    Jeff Z. Pan

  2. Insitute for Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitaetsstr. 1, Koblenz, 56016, Germany

    Steffen Staab

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    Uwe Aßmann

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    Jürgen Ebert

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    Yuting Zhao

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Gröner, G., Jekjantuk, N., Walter, T., Parreiras, F.S., Pan, J.Z. (2013). Metamodelling and Ontologies( ∗ ) . In: Pan, J., Staab, S., Aßmann, U., Ebert, J., Zhao, Y. (eds) Ontology-Driven Software Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31226-7_7

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