Domain Modeling in the Context of Ontology

Abstract

Abstract. The domain knowledge represented by ontology should be widely used in the design process of information system. The aim of the paper is to outline a systematic approach of developing a CIM model (domain model, precisely) on the basis of a selected domain ontology. There are presented some hints how ontology concepts can be expressed in domain model. Elaborated example realizes some difficulties in proposed approach, e.g. the domain knowledge is spread over many ontologies, some facts are defined at very general level (their interpretation is more difficult), ontology may contain many irrelevant elements. Nevertheless, we are believed that applying ontology in conscious way can help to achieve higher compliance of the domain model with the application domain.

Formal Ontologies in Information Systems Development: A Systematic Review

“…Analysts and developers are in touch with a terminology which is used by a company for which software is developed. Dubielewicz et al [56] use the ontology for modelling business classes, instances, taxonomical relationships, domain-specific associations and the hierarchy of these relationships. These ontological elements are translated by an analyst into a UML class diagram, which can be additionally refined by an expert who understands a business domain.…”

Mining Cardinality Restrictions in OWL

“…Logic-based knowledge representation, and ontologies in particular, find numerous applications beyond the Semantic Web. For example, Dubielewicz et al [4]. used ontologies to develop a domain model in the software development process.…”

“…Assume that the ontology engineer apply the second approach and collects a small corpus of bibliographic information about scientific papers. Let it be the list [2][3][4][5][6] of the bibliography section of this paper. On these 5 papers, they compute some basic statistics: each paper has exactly 1 title, there is 1 paper with 2 authors, 3 papers with 3 authors and 1 paper with 4 authors.…”

Survey on Ontology-Based Visualization Techniques towards Program Comprehension Application

“…In software engineering, ontology is defined as a conceptual model that represents domain knowledge of software application. It is in a form of a set of concepts within the domain, the properties of the concepts and interrelations between those concepts (Dubielewicz, Hnatkowska, Huzar, & Tuzinkiewicz, 2015), which is considered as among the techniques that are able to support the understanding of a program (Wilson, 2010).…”

“…Many works analyze the role of ontologies in software engineering processes and shows that ontologies can be a basis for domain analysis and simulation in software development. A work that supports the software development process based on ontologies are proposed by Dubielewicz et al (Dubielewicz et al, 2015). The work applies the domain ontologies to conceptual model development.…”