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• Create a concept model from scratch or by importing an OWL ontology for reuse and/or as a starting point for the creation of a concept model.
• Graphically represent imported RDFS/OWL 2 ontologies.
• Provide graphical concept model authoring with subject matter experts.
• Integrate with any UML model or UML-based standard, such as the Unified Profile for MoDAF and DoDAF, and NIEM-UML.
  • Support the Open World
  assumption that incomplete, undiscovered information does not limit the truth value of factual representation (e.g., John may or may not be a caretaker, given that Jane is a caretaker)
  • Assumption (i.e., absence of information is interpreted as unknown information, not as negative information)*.
• Export a concept model to an OWL 2 ontology for reasoning over and adding further precision to constrain possible interpretations.
• Support the creation of Closed World Assumption information models.
• Automatically style classes defined in other packages and diagrams.

To see all elements that Concept Modeler can import or export, refer to Concept Modeling Semantics and UML to Equivalent OWL ( in OWL Functional Syntax).

UML model traceability

The Concept Modeler uses UML to build models. Therefore, concept models built by the Concept Modeler can be traced to any UML model, (e.g., NIEM-UML).

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Cameo Concept Modeler offers a project option that speeds up the creation of one of many possible kinds of annotations, and specifies which kind of annotation to treat as documentation. You can select a preferred annotation property to be assumed whenever the user adds a UML Comment or an annotation. Comments and Annotations that explicitly use that annotation property will then be shown in the documentation panel, and in the Natural Language Glossary, as the human-specified definition (as opposed to the model-generated definition). 

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Creation of multiple data models from one concept model and connection of multiple existing data models to one concept model

Updating symbol styles

Cameo Concept Modeler diagrams are intended to be as non-technical as possible for subject matter experts. As new features are added to the Concept Modeler, sometimes symbol styles may expose technical details that are not appropriate for that kind of audience. Cameo Concept Modeler therefore offers to tweak the styles called "Default" and "Defined Elsewhere". However, if you have tweaked those styles yourself, you may wish to either defer this, or make Concept Modeler stop asking you altogether.

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Creation of multiple data models from one concept model (Diagram preservation after ontology import)

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