Improving Design Patterns by Description Logics: A Use Case with Abstract Factory and Strategy

This paper deals with problems in common design patterns and proposes description-logics-based modeling to remedy these issues. We exploit the TwoUse approach, which integrates OWL-DL, a W3C standard for description logics on the web, and UML-based modeling, to overcome drawbacks of the Strategy Pattern, that are also extensible to the Abstract Factory Pattern in a Model Driven Approach. The result is an OWL-based pattern to be used with design patterns: the Selector Pattern.

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