Automatic Conversion Method of Class Diagrams to Ontologies Maintaining Their Semantic Features

In this paper, we propose a new conversion’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.