OWLOOP: A modular API to describe OWL axioms in OOP objects hierarchies
Abstract
OWLOOP is an Application Programming Interface (API) for using the Ontology Web Language (OWL) by the means of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It is common to design software architectures using the OOP paradigm for increasing their modularity. If the components of an architecture also exploit OWL ontologies for knowledge representation and reasoning, they would require to be interfaced with OWL axioms. Since OWL does not adhere to the OOP paradigm, such an interface often leads to boilerplate code affecting modularity, and OWLOOP is designed to address this issue as well as the associated computational aspects. We present an extension of the OWL-API to provide a general-purpose interface between OWL axioms subject to reasoning and modular OOP objects hierarchies.
- Publication:
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SoftwareX
- Pub Date:
- January 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100952
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2112.15544
- Bibcode:
- 2022SoftX..1700952B
- Keywords:
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- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP);
- Ontology Web Language (OWL);
- Application Programming Interface (API);
- Software architecture;
- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence;
- Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science;
- Computer Science - Software Engineering;
- 68T01;
- D.2.0;
- D.1.0
- E-Print:
- This version of the manuscript has been published on the SoftwareX Elsevier journal in January 2022. The manuscript is made of 21 pages, which include 3 tables, 6 figures, and 4 listings