%0 Journal Article %T Automatic Conversion Method of Class Diagrams to Ontologies Maintaining Their Semantic Features %A Jamal BAKKAS %A Mohamed BAHAJ %J International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %D 2013 %I International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering %X In this paper, we propose a new conversionĄ¯smethod from UML class diagram to ontology in order to serve theSemantic Web. The ontology which results from the conversion isexpressed in OWL / XML. This method allows us to preservesemantic of some feature's UML diagram such as inheritance,encapsulation, types of associations (composition, aggregation,or simple association), constraints of integrity, classidentifier...etc. %K UML %K ontology %K mapping %K OWL. %U http://www.ijsce.org/attachments/File/v2i6/F1095112612.pdf