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An MDA Approach Based on UML and ODM Standards to Support Big Data Analytics Regarding Ontology Development

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Today, the large increase in the amount of data produced by different sources and the development of technologies to store and analyze them offer many perspectives for the ontology modeling. The creation of domain ontologies will form the basis for application developers to target business professional contexts, however the future of big data will depend on the use of technologies to model ontologies. With that said, many researches recommend the combination of ontologies and big data approaches as the most efficient way to store, extract and analyze data. In this paper, we present a new methodology supporting ontology modeling for the automatic generation of domain ontologies. We propose a transformation from UML class diagrams to ODM models in agreement with the MDA approach. MDA provides opportunities to present ontology artifacts in an intuitive way by defining them in a high level of abstraction using the UML graphical syntax. With the MDA process, the ontology represented as a class diagram will automatically be generated through an ODM metamodel. In this proposal, we founded on an analytical survey. To validate our proposal, we applied it to an e-learning domain ontology.

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    Naziha Laaz & Samir Mbarki

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Laaz, N., Mbarki, S. (2019). An MDA Approach Based on UML and ODM Standards to Support Big Data Analytics Regarding Ontology Development. In: Ben Ahmed, M., Boudhir, A., Younes, A. (eds) Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 2. SCA 2018. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11196-0_19

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