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etrieves the properties by their car<strong>di</strong>nality values, PropertyIsDatatypeProperty retrieves the<br />

properties of data values, and PropertyIsObjectProperty retrieves the properties of objects.<br />

Figure 3.4: Property Component<br />

3.1.4 Hierarchy Components<br />

The Hierarchy components explore the inclusion axioms in the knowledge base regar<strong>di</strong>ng<br />

hierarchies of UML classes or properties, and to deduct the taxonomy defined upon them. If no<br />

selection con<strong>di</strong>tion is specified, they extract the complete taxonomy. Otherwise, they retrieve the<br />

elements in the knowledge base (classes or properties) satisfying the correspon<strong>di</strong>ng inclusion<br />

assertions.<br />

The selection con<strong>di</strong>tions for the Classes Hierarchy Component are the following: the<br />

DirectSuperClass and SuperClass for extraction of the <strong>di</strong>rect superclass (father) or all the<br />

superclasses (ancestors) of the given classes; the DirectSubClass and SubClass for extraction of<br />

the <strong>di</strong>rect subclass (child) or all subclasses (descendants) of the given classes; the<br />

MostGenericClass and MostSpecificClass for retrieving the most generic or the most specific<br />

classes in the hierarchy. A combination of the previous con<strong>di</strong>tions extracts the hierarchy<br />

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