Ontologybased architecture for providing recommendation. At the beginning of this year structured dynamics assembled a listing of ontology building tools at the request of a client. Companion proceedings ecsa 18, september 2428, 2018, madrid, spain. Bu research blog bu research bournemouth university. The tool in the application is to support software process improvement work after assessment. We have evaluated this ontologybased approach in a controlled industry experiment involving software professionals. That listing was presented as the sweet compendium of ontology building tools. Ontology based data integration over document and column family oriented nosql. An extensible, ontologybased, distributed information. In this paper, we consider that an ontologybased representation of the information stored in a set of nosql sources is highly needed. The open source version of the essential ea tool was launched in 2009, and has evolved based on input from practising architects from both the ea community and from the project sponsors eas. Towards an ontologybased distributed architecture for paid content 261 for example, dantes divine comedy is an io, it is ordered by middle age italian language the information encoding system, is realized by e.
An ontologybased enterprise architecture sciencedirect. A software redocumentation process using ontology based. An ontologybased approach for software architecture. Now, again because of some client and internal work, we have researched the space again and updated the listing. Keywordssoftware architecture documentation, software ar.
It also produces a software prototype with appropriate documentation. The ontologybased business architecture engineering framework. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic web in systems and software engineering. An ontology based cbr architecture for knowledge management in bulchino catalogue nadezhda govedarova, stanimir stoyanov, ivan popchev abstract.
Ontologybased software architecture documentation ieee xplore. System architecture of the ontologybased application server. Semantic metadata and the ontology are loaded into the inference engine. Architecture or xda that addresses many of the problems associated with the construction of complex distributed information systems.
Listing of 185 ontology building tools ai3adaptive. It may be leveraged for the development of related standards or specifications supporting that environment, as well as. The ontology based approach is to produce a schema from the legacy system to descri be the context of the software system or in terms of the domain specific concepts. The theory that underlies the notion of enterprise ontology as presented by dietz 1 is called the psitheory 9. For this task, semantic technologies are a promising alternative to conventional database technology. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontology. We report on a controlled industry experiment in which the ontologybased approach is compared to a. Ontologybased software architecture documentation ieee. Software engineering ontology for software engineering. Ontologybased software architecture documentation vrije. Ontologybased web services framework for building information modeling by le zhang august 2012 chair. It is one of the multiple data integration approaches and may be classified as globalasview gav.
We refer to such an approach to architecture documentation as an ontologybased approach. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an ontologybased search approach adriana maria figueiredo, julio c. In proceedings of the 10th international conference on intelligent software methodologies, tools and techniques somet, september 2830, 2011, saintpetersburg, russia. The main motivation of this approach is the ability to reason on elements of the ontology and to. Ontology based knowledge management system framework reuse of knowledge, acquired by knowledge connections, is the process that knowledge is used in application systems. Pdf ontologybased software architecture documentation. Towards an enterprise ontologybased approach to information architecture miguel morais da cunha catarino tavares thesis to obtain the master of science degree in information systems and computer engineering examination committee chairman.
More simply, an ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of concepts and. In fol we define the semantics in terms of models a model theory. We will provide a highlevel overview of the philosophy and design of xda with emphasis on ontology support, followed by a description of some concrete problem domains with associated ontologybased. Applications of ontologies in software engineering 5 time usage of ontologies in applications.
Ontologybased applications in the age of the semantic web. We also look at techniques where ontologies support coding and code documentation. Ontologybased data integration involves the use of ontologys to effectively combine data or information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Kbsontology projects and groups university of texas at. T1 ontologybased software architecture documentation. In this part, users can make use of knowledge search engine to find related contents in different separate strata, in other words, ones can acquire knowledge by the method of. This paper presents the results of an ongoing research on an ontologybased approach to building information modeling to facilitate information exchange among different knowledge domain applications. An ontologybased approach for modelling architectural styles.
A model is supposed to be an analogue of part of the world being modeled. Ontology driven software development for automated documentation. With ontologybased software engineering, the software engineering terms can be parsed. Enterprise ontology is focused on the essence of the operation of an organization, meaning that it is fully independent of the current realization and implementation of the organization. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Ak changes often in large and complex systems and the cost to update is sometimes prohibitive 9, especially in agile.
Ontologybased software architecture documentation klaas. Ontologybased integration and management of distributed. Design, construction and planning the construction industry is known for being fragmented, yet a construction project is a multidisciplinary team effort which requires information from many different. The concepts related to software architecture and their instances are automatically identified and extracted by parsing the. Ontologybased understanding of architectural drawings.
Citeseerx ontologybased software architecture documentation. Abstracta common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of filebased documents. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an. The tool shares a meta model and views with the commercial versions of essential, and you can do great enterprise architecture with it. Abstract we have designed a method by using which one can analyse the requirement document of the software. Towards an ontologybased distributed architecture for. This documentation approach offers a singledimensional perspective on the software architectural knowledge contained. Ontologybased architecture documentation approac h. In this paper we present otologybased architecture for knowledge management in bulchino webbased catalogue for bulgarian cultural heritage. The documentation generation platform implementsa twostep process. N2 a common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of filebased documents. In this paper we present a knowledge base of architectural documents aiming at improving existing methods of floor plan classification and understanding. Triangle representing the triple constraints of timecostquality along with an.
A platform to automatically generate and incorporate. Ontologybased building information modeling computing. This contribution gives an outline of the transfer project t1, which aims at the development of an ontologybased software prototype for the integration and reconciliation of design data. In this chapter we in vestigate how an on tology can be used for retrieving ak from. Modeling an organization using enterprise ontology by. Ontology works ontology works is a leading source of ontology construction software, ontologybased database software, and ontologybased information integration software. From the process objects associated with the respective resources, the user can gain information about the organizational context i. Rodrigues software development technologies lab center for information technology renato archer campinas, sp, brazil abstract every software has an architecture, but in most cases it is poorly documented. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts what they are, how they are related, and. Flexible software architectures for ontologybased information systems michael wessel. Triangle representing the triple constraints of timecostquality along with an added.
This is the general idea behind ontologybased information extraction. It appears that the term \ontologybased information extraction has been conceived only a few years ago. It is mapping between software requirement specification and the knowledge base. Ontologybased software architecture documentation abstract. This reference ontology for semantic service oriented architectures is an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships between them within a semanticallyenabled serviceoriented environment. Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multisite software development environment. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontologybased software engineering.
Ontologybased information management in design processes 5 documentation of organizational context. This paper presents an ontologybased software framework for providing educational data mining applications, mainly offering flexibility of encapsulate mining techniques with semantic web services. Knowledge retrieval from filebased architecture documentation is efficient if the perspective. Ontologybased information management in design processes. Pdf an ontologybased software framework to provide. This approach offers a singledimensional perspective on the architectural.
An ontologybased approach for documenting and validating. The ontologybased enterprise architecture is modeled in three levels as shown in fig. Several researchers have investigated the limitations of ifcs data model for interoperability among heterogeneous software applications. An ontologybased approach for documenting and validating architecture rules.
The effectiveness of ontology based data integration is closely tied to the consistency and expressivity of the ontology used in the integration process. The essential project enterprise architecture tool. Some ongoing kbsontology projects and groups quick index. A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of filebased documents. The platforms highlevel architecture is illustrated in. The thesis consists of an experiment of applying a generic software tool to a speci. Nasas thesaurus covering aerospace available for a nominal fee.
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