ODASE: Ontology-Centric Software Development for Business-Critical Applications
- Michel Vanden Bossche-Marquette
- Sep 14
- 1 min read
The Rise of Semantic Web Technologies:
Semantic web technologies enable a clear separation between the Business “what” and the IT “how”. This is achieved using SWRL with OWL and RDF, thereby formalizing the business logic declaratively. To tackle real-world problems, SWRL must be extended with existentials, aggregates and NAF. This extended SWRL must use a syntax which is easily understood by business experts.
High-performance reasoners leveraging parallelism deliver high execution speed. This set-up establishes harmony between the logic-based business specification and the technical construct, achieved by ODASE and proven by several real-world applications.

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