Formalizing object-ontological mapping using F-logic

Abstract

Ontologies can represent a significant asset of domain-specific information systems, written predominantly using the object-oriented paradigm. However, to be able to work with ontological data in this paradigm, a mapping must ensure transformation between the ontology and the object world. While many software libraries provide such a mapping, they lack standardization or formal guarantees of its semantics. In this paper, we provide a formalism for mapping ontologies between description logics and F-logic, a formal language for representing structural aspects of object-oriented programming languages. This formalism allows to precisely specify the semantics of the object-ontological mapping and thus ensure a predictable shape and behavior of the object model.