@techreport{TR-IC-11-02,
   number = {IC-11-02},
   author  =  {Júlio  César  dos  Reis  and  Rodrigo Bonacin and Maria
                   Cecília Calani Baranauskas},
   title  =  {{From  Ontology Charts to Web Ontologies: Heuristics and
                   Transformation Rules}},
   month = {January},
   year = {2011},
   institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
   note = {In English, 49 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       The  evolution  of  the  Web  depends  on  novel techniques and
       methodologies that can handle and better represent the meanings
       of  the  huge  amount of information available nowadays. Recent
       proposals  in  literature have explored new approaches based on
       Semiotics.  The  Semiotic  Web ontology? (SWO) is an attempt to
       model the information in a computer-tractable and more adequate
       way,  and,  at the same time to be compatible with the Semantic
       Web  (SW) standards. This work presents an assisted process for
       building    SWOs.   The   process   includes   heuristics   and  
       transformation  rules  for  deriving  an  initial  Web ontology
       described   in  Web  Ontology  Language  from  Ontology  Charts 
       produced  by  the Semantic Analysis Method. Moreover, the whole
       process is discussed; results of the application of the process
       to  a  real  context show the potential of the approach and the
       value  of  the  proposed  heuristics  and  implemented rules to
       create more representative Web ontologies.
  }
}