An Owl Ontology for Commonkads Template Knowledge Models

This paper gives an overview of how an OWL ontology has been created to represent template knowledge models defined in CML that are provided by CommonKADS. CommonKADS is a mature knowledge engineering methodology which proposes the use of template knowledge model for knowledge modelling. The aim of developing this ontology is to present the template knowledge model in a knowledge representation language that can be easily understood and shared in the knowledge engineering community. Hence OWL is used as it has become a standard for ontology and also it already has user friendly tools for viewing and editing.

Authors:

• B. A. Gobin
• R. K. Subramanian

Keywords:

• Ontology
• OWL
• Template Knowledge Models
• CommonKADS

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