Overview
The UPML editor provides the ontology and tool support for specifying libraries
of problem-solving methods with the Unified
Problem-solving Method description Language (UPML), developed in the course
of the IBROW European project. UPML is a modeling framework
for specifying reusable (i.e., generic and adaptable) components of knowledge-based
systems, namely tasks, problem-solving methods (PSMs) and domain models. A collection
of such knowledge components is referred to as a library.
The UPML editor is based on the Protégé
generic knowledge-modeling environment. UPML is modeled as an ontology in Protégé
and the UPML editor is a customized knowledge-acquisition tool in Protégé that
allows library providers to enter specifications of their PSMs and related knowledge
components as instances of the UPML ontology. The UPML editor can be extended
to handle specific ontology models and contents-description languages, such
as Protégé itself, MCL, and OCML.
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Documentation
For a detailed reference of UPML, please read: Fensel, D., Motta,
E., van Harmelen, F., Benjamins, V.R., Crubézy, M., Decker, S., Gaspari,
M., Groenboom, R., Grosso, W., Musen, M.A., Plaza, E., Schreiber, G., Studer,
R. and Wielinga, R. (2003). The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language
UPML. Knowledge
and Information Systems Journal (KAIS) 5(1): 83-131. (Local
version).
Main documentation and files for the UPML editor are available from the UPML website,
under the Protégé support section.
In particular, the "UPML
Validation and Tool Support" deliverable document was written as a user manual.
It contains installation instructions, screenshots and documentation about the way to use
and extend the UPML editor.
In addition, two demo movies walk you
through the UPML editor (in Protégé version 1.x), as customized
for the IBROW OCML-based classification library.
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Download
UPML editor for Protégé
version 3.0The base UPML editor in Protégé version 3.0 can be downloaded from here.
The UPML editor as extended to handle Protégé ontologies can be downloaded
from here.
A sample PSM library developed with the UPML-Protégé editor can be found here.
UPML editor for Protégé
version 2.1The base UPML editor in Protégé version 2.1 can be downloaded from here.
The UPML editor as extended to handle Protégé ontologies can be downloaded
from here.
UPML editor for Protégé
version 1.9The Protégé files for the base UPML editor can be downloaded from the UPML website,
under the Protégé support section.
Example UPML libraries (for classification and for diagnosis) can be found there too, that
each uses a custom extension of the UPML editor.
The UPML editor as extended to handle Protégé ontologies can be downloaded
from here. A sample PSM library developed
with the UPML-Protégé editor can be found here.
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User support for UPML libraries in Protégé--the "PSM Librarian Tab"
The "PSM Librarian
Tab" is a plugin to Protégé
that supports library users in browsing, selecting and configuring problem-solving
methods (PSMs) that are specified in UPML libraries. Any library developed with
the UPML editor can be interfaced with a Protégé project using the PSM Tab,
in accordance with current requirements, as listed below:
- The UPML specification of the entire library need not be complete to be compatible with the PSM Tab.
- In order to be available to the PSM Tab, library projects should be named
<your-upml-library>-library and copied in your
<psm_tab>folder
(typically C:\Program Files\Protege-3.0\plugins\edu.stanford.smi.protegex.psm\psm_tab_projects on Windows, or
/Applications/Protege-3.0/plugins/edu.stanford.smi.protegex.psm/psm_tab_projects on Mac OSX). - The PSM Tab currently supports UPML library projects that have only one instance of the class Library.
- The method-configuration support of the PSM Tab only applies to libraries developed with the UPML-Protégé editor (i.e., the UPML editor extended for Protégé ontologies, see download section). In addition, you need to create an external ontology project in Protégé that holds the method ontology, for each configurable PSM in your library. The name of the external method ontology project for a particular PSM should appear in the field "resource identifier" of the field "pragmatics" of the ontology instance associated with that PSM component (through the "ontologies" field).
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