An Ontological-Based Approach to Analyze Software Production Methods

Bridging metamodels and ontologies in software engineering

“…Guarino, 1998). While paper titles such as that of Pastor et al (2008) stress the ontological content, this is still in its infancy. More substantial integration is achieved, for instance, in Hesse (2008a), who links ontologies with the FRISCO framework (Falkenberg et al, 1998) by taking its semiotic tetrahedron and replacing the Domain (referent) by a linkage to Ontology, which, in turn, is more solidly linked to Representation (Fig.…”

“…In addition to the work of Hesse (2008a,b), Pastor et al (2008) and Tran et al (2006) that are focussed on integrating ontological ideas into software engineering, other authors have found a specific focus area-for instance, Höfferer (2007) investigates the use of metamodels and ontologies in the context of the interoperability of business processes with suggestions on the use of ontologies in service-oriented architectures; Zhu and Feng (2010) explore how to use an ontology in data mining focussing on a database context. Happel and Seedorf (2006) consider the overlap of semantic web technologies and software engineering and identify the various lifecycle stages at which ontologies may be useful.…”

Foundations of information technology based on Bunge’s systemist philosophy of reality

“…Bunge is among the most influential ontologists for the fields of conceptual modeling, systems analysis and design, and software engineering research. Bunge's ideas were, not only at the core of BWW, but also used widely in design and empirical studies on conceptual modeling [45,82,86,118], business process modeling [10,89], information quality [72]; Lukyanenko Wiersma, et al, [74,109], data modeling and database design [83,108], 1999), software engineering [85,92], information systems requirements [65,98,106], and ontology engineering [5,7]. Bunge's ideas have also been frequently used as a benchmark for other ontologies and when analyzing the value of ontologies for IT [54,56,121].…”

“…Applications are especially prolific in research on semantic web [9,32], which aims to move beyond syntactic matches to deeper interoperability, and on conceptual data and process modeling which develops representations of application domains and user requirements [77,80,88]. Ontologies have also been used in knowledge management, artificial intelligence, interface design, database schema integration, analysis of software performance, information quality, and other applications [47,54,56,85,90,91,101,104,109,119]. Empirical benefits of adopting a specific domain ontology for conceptual modeling or to improve data quality have been documented [8,12,35,37,72,89,102,104].…”

Multi Agent Systems Combined with Semantic Technologies for Automated Negotiation in Virtual Enterprises

“…Ontologies have been used in IT for a range of objectives: for clarifying the knowledge structure, for reducing conceptual and terminological ambiguity and for enabling knowledge sharing extensions to typical IT projects (Calero et al 2007, Hepp et al 2007, Pastor et al 2008. Typical objectives for ontology usage include a) the declarative specification of a system; b) the support for manual or semi-automated consistency checks; c) the improvement of the documentation and a reduction in the efforts needed for maintenance; d) the reuse of aspects between different domains or tasks; and e) the acquisition and storage of knowledge, e.g., with reasoning (Happel andSeedorf 2008, Baclawski et al 2001).…”