Ontologies and Semantic Rules in Real Life

EasyChair Preprint 15236

Abstract

This article presents the successful delivery of a digital solution for the Belgian Railways, from requirements specification to roll-out in the cloud. This was achieved using ODASE, an ontology-centric software development and execution platform combining OWL-RDF ontologies and Semantic Rules based on SWRL. The semantic model allows for a complete description and execution of business requirements, and programming is only required for the technical scaffolding necessary for a fully working solution. This mission-critical application has been in production for more than a year and is successful on all fronts: correctness, transparency, changeability, time-to-market, cost effectiveness and performance.

Keyphrases: Ontologies, SWRL, Software Engineering, ontology-centric development, transport

@booklet{EasyChair:15236,
  author    = {Michel Vanden Bossche-Marquette and Léa Guizol and Rémi Le Brouster},
  title     = {Ontologies and Semantic Rules in Real Life},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 15236},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}