Semantic Web Domain Knowledge Representation Using Software Engineering Modeling Technique

Abstract

The semantic web offers a great deal of deviation from the way in which the current search engines which are based on the traditional information search theory work. Semantic search is carried out by ontology based intelligent information retrieval. So a good semantic search needs a good ontology. The ontology developers need more familiar notations and tools for a uniform representation of ontologies. UML being a standard modeling language in software engineering, it is better supported in terms of expertise and the tools as compared to the upcoming semantic web languages. This work proposes a representation technique which is based on software engineering standards namely UML for modeling domain knowledge of the Semantic Web. The ontology for Company Domain has been presented using this software engineering modeling technique. The UML tool like Rational Rose tool can be used to provide support for modeling complex ontologies of the given domain.