Using Objects and Patterns to Implement Domain Ontologies

• Giancarlo Guizzardi UFES / University of Twente
• Ricardo de Almeida Falbo UFES
• José Gonçalves Pereira Filho UFES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2001.23979

Resumo

Ontologies are becoming an important mechanism to build information systems. Nevertheless, there is still no systematic approach to support the design of such systems using tools that are common to information systems developers. In this paper, we propose an approach for deriving object frameworks from domain ontologies and then we show the application of this approach in the software process domain.

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