DMTF-CIM to OWL : A Case Study in Ontology Conversion

The process and problems associated with translating a specific software engineering ontology into a different ontology language are described. The software engineering ontology is the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Common Information Model (CIM). The target ontology language is the W3C OWL DL language. The specific translations are described for various CIM constructs. Difficulties in translation are characterized.