Offered conception ontology was considered in the different models of lc spiral, interaction, incremental and so on on student lections and on the scientific seminars of the theory programming and information systems departments of the kiev national university knu, and also case of the discipline teaching the software engineering 3. This paper proposes an ontology building methodology that capitalizes the large experience drawn from a widely used standard in software engineering. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts what they are, how they are related, and. Building an ontology from scratch is not only hard, but also incur much time and cost. Software engineering education programs must be a separate discipline since the concepts summarized above. Ontology enginee ring aims to make explicit the knowledge c ontained in sof tware applications, and organizational procedures for a. Computer science, information science and systems engineering, ontology engineering is a. Ontologysupported quality assurance for componentbased. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic. In this study, the reasons of teaching ontology in undergraduate software engineering programs due to the need to huge data for present day software products have briefly been explained. Knowledge based applications use ontologies for knowledge sharing, which forms the primary use of ontologies.
Ontology engineering offers a direction for overcoming semantic obstacles, such as those related to the definitions of business terms and software classes. Ontology engineering aims to make explicit the knowledge contained in software applications, and organizational procedures for a particular domain. Ontologybased software engineering obse approach are outlined. When there is a change in requirement, software agents work cooperatively to trace and identify potentially affected software artifacts. Pdf ontologies and software engineering researchgate. Ontologies for software engineering semantic scholar. Pdf an ontology to support empirical studies in software.
This book, motivated by the ontology 101 tutorial given for many years at what was originally the semantic technology conference semtech and then later from a semesterlong university class, is designed to provide the foundations for ontology engineering. The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. The goal of this ontology is support communication. As a result, software development teams that have to combine ontology engineering activities with software development practices are facing several challenges, since these two areas have evolved, in general, separately. Ontologies in the software engineering process wolfgang hesse using ontologies in software engineering and technology francisco ruiz, jose r. Ontology driven software development for automated documentation. Protege is supported by a strong community of academic, government, and corporate users, who use protege to build knowledgebased solutions in areas as diverse as biomedicine, ecommerce, and organizational modeling. Eon is an application system that comprises a number of modular components figure 1. Applications of ontologies in software engineering 3 generality. This study aims to propose an ontology through adaptation of the existing ontology which is originally built based on a qualification framework. The software engineering ontology is used as a communication framework to enable knowledge sharing and reuse while the multiagent provides the autonomy and the reactive and proactive features to the multisite software development environment. This project is intended to fill the gap between the semantic web and the mainstream of software engineering, especially to integrate the semantic web with programming languages, and find an ontological representation of programming languages, including abstract syntax code execution, and global interoperability in execution environments. W3c standards support protege fully supports the latest owl 2 web ontology language and rdf specifications from the world wide web consortium.
Validation of ontology based test case generation for graphical user. An ontology supported knowledge representation scheme is presented to compose and organize process knowledge into an organizational repository. Ontology based active requirements engineering framework seok won lee and robin a. One unique area of research is the software engineering ontology. Methods to improve an ontologys quality engineering. Ontology promises and limitations for system engineering. The architecture is intended to be embedded within a clinical information system, processing. There should be a knowledgebased tool that overcome the lack of qualification of the analyst, which is not been presented to the area lately. Integrated development environment for rete4frames rule engine and expert system shell based on protege3.
The result of successful requirements engineering process vary on the experience and skills of the analyst. In this paper we focus on utilizing the proposed framework to support automated requirements traceability tasks. An ontology of online user feedback in software engineering. This paper presents ontodisenv1, application ontology for a distributed software development environment. With the purpose of contributing to fill up this gap we propose an ontology, for explicit online user feedback that is founded on a foundational ontology and has been proposed to describe artifacts and processes in software engineering.
Which roles ontologies play on software requirements. In this paper, we discuss the crucial importance of properly analyzing and representing useful assets obtained in the process of software development. These methods aim to assist the ontologist in certain tasks of the ontology engineering process, such as to assist the modeling itself and to integrate ontologies, which may have supporting software tools. Fa872105 c0003 with carnegie mellon university for the operation of the software engineering institute, a federally. Pdf use of ontologies in software engineering semantic scholar. The engmath ontology is intended to provide a formal language sufficient to express the models in engineering textbooks and to map them to mathematical software tools. According to the expressiveness of the formalism used, one can further distinguish lightweight and heavyweight ontologies. The distributed software development has become an option for software companies to expand their perspective and work with dispersed teams, exploiting the. Ontology engineering is a set of tasks related to the development of ontologies for a particular domain. Due to the emergence of the semantic web vision ontologies have been attracting much attention recently. Using the application of exclusion criteria, 60 papers have remained and were analyzed.
Ontologybased software engineering how is ontologybased. The methodologies we have seen in the previous section may include one or more methods at a particular step in the process. Ontologies in the software engineering process ceur workshop. Thus, the main objective of this work is to investigate and better understand how. Ontologyassisted systems engineering process with focus in. The software engineering community has recognized ontologies as a promising way to support the software development process 5. Requirements pattern software specification ontology. The book can serve as a course textbook or a primer for all those interested in ontologies.
To accomplish ontology driven software development for automated documentation, first of all, a multiphase framework is proposed which is then exhibited using a case study. Ontology promises and limitations for system engineering on. Ontologies are built to model a domain and support reasoning over the concepts. The development of ontology involves a structural and logical complexity that is comparable to the development of software artifacts. Selforganized reuse of software engineering knowledge supported by. The term ontology has become popular in several fields of informatics like artificial intelligence, agent systems, database or web technology. Therefore, ontology building requires a methodology to ensure.
Ontologybased active requirements engineering framework. A fragment of an ontology for a humble washing machine is provided below. Although seon itself is a new proposal, the studies and ontologies developed along the years are important contributions for defining this network. Indeed, some tools can be prototypes for which the lifespan is expected to be short. Automating ontology engineering support activities with. Pdf ontologies for software engineering and software technology. Ontology engineering in semantic web is primarily supported by languages such as rdf, rdfs and owl ding, 2007. Engineering with knowledge management, throughout information retrieval from existing sources, allows the verification process to measure quality of a set of requirements by traceability, ontology assisted systems engineering process with focus in the requirements engineering process anabel fraga, juan llorens, luis alonso.
The ontology is based on the experiments that are documented in the empirical software engineering body of literature. Existing software development tools offer very good support for document management. Ontology promises and limitations for system engineering on top of big linked data. Ontology engineering offers a direction towards solving the interoperability problems brought about by semantic obstacles, i. Ontology development is largely aimed at ai experts with knowledge of diverse techniques originating from the field of ai. In software engineering, ontologies can capture the knowledge of a. Ontology supported quality assurance for componentbased systems configuration stefan biffl1,2 thomas moser1,2 richard mordinyi 2,3 dindin wahyudin1 stefan. Due to the increasing uptake of semantic technologies, ontologies are now part of a good number of information systems. An ontology is an explicit formal specification of the terms in a domain and relations among them. Published on december 8, 2016 december 8, 2016 6 likes 22 comments. It is important to build an ontology for specific domain such as software engineering education. New definitions have to be compatible with the ontology and be. A framework of ontologysupported software process knowledge.
Up to our knowledge, a conceptualization of user feedback is still missing. Protege is actively supported by a strong community of users and developers that field questions, write documentation, and contribute plugins. Moreover, ontologies can be used to support requirements management and. This paper presents an enterprise ontology for features that is suitable for managing featurebased product line engineering and operations in the largest and most complex product line organizations. We view the latter application as an instance of agent communication, which is the subject of the next section. Use of ontologies in each phase of software development yields competitive. To choose a suitable visualization tool, practitioners need to analyze various characteristics of tools such as their supported software concerns and level of maturity. An insider threat indicator ontology sei digital library. Ontologies are used for formal representation of domain knowledge. Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering. Applications of ontologies in software engineering web scienceen. Ontology based software engineering listed as obse. Applications of ontologies in requirements engineering. The use of the ontology in different stages varies in usefulness and in ease.
H umancentered c ollaborative o ntology e ngineering m ethodology. Fast forwarding to the present, systems engineering ontologies formally represent domain knowledge as a hierarchy of concepts using a set vocabulary to denote the types, properties and interrelationships of domain concepts. A software engineering approach to ontology building. Requirements engineering, supported by ontology and. There is an increase use of ontology driven approaches to support requirements engineering re activities, such as elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management of requirements. This material is based upon work funded and supported by defense advanced research projects agency darpa and federal bureau of investigation fbi under contract no. However, the re community still lacks a comprehensive understanding of how ontologies are used in re process. Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. Software engineering ontology for software engineering. Methodologies and tools for ontology engineering dogma. It combines two wellknown paradigms of software development. Ontology driven software engineering ieee conference. Ontology building exhibits a structural and logical complexity that is comparable to the production of software artefacts.
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