UMP
The UMP-ST consists of four major disciplines: Requirements, Analysis & Design, Implementation, and Test. These terms are borrowed from the Unified Process with some modifications to reflect our domain of ontology modeling instead of software development process.
The figure below depicts the intensity of each discipline during the UMP-ST. UMP-ST is iterative and incremental. The basic idea behind iterative enhancement is to model our domain incrementally, allowing the modeler to take advantage of what was being learned during the modeling of earlier, incremental, deliverable versions of the model. Learning comes from discovering new rules, entities, and relations that were not obvious previously, which can give rise to new questions and evidence that might help us achieve our previously defined goal as well as give rise to new goals.
Figure below presents the Probabilistic Ontology Modeling Cycle (POMC). This cycle depicts the major activities or concepts in each discipline, how they usually interact, and the natural order in which they occur. However, as described previously, this is not the same as the waterfall model (see [114] for information about the waterfall model). I.e., it is not necessary to go through implementation to be able to test the model. Besides that, the interactions between the disciplines are not restricted to the arrows presented. In fact, it is possible to have interactions between any pair of disciplines. For instance, it is not uncommon to discover a problem in the rules defined in the Analysis & Design discipline during the activities in the Test discipline. In other words, although, the arrow just shows interaction between the Test and Requirement disciplines, it is possible to go directly from Test to Analysis & Design. .