Knublauch, h ontologydriven software development in the context of the semantic web. Ontologydriven apps using generic applications ai3adaptive. Ontologydriven description and engineering of autonomous. Tutorial short description conceptual modeling is a discipline of great importance to several areas in computer science such as software and knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Ontologydriven method engineering for information systems. The ontologydriven approach to support the requirements. This note attempts to outline how semantic web technologies can be applied in systems and software engineering, as well as the benefits such applications could bring. Ontology driven model for an engineered agile healthcare. The first contribution of the paper is a comprehensive methodology for an ontology driven product configuration process. The research of ietm knowledge acquisition based on semantic wiki x jianwu, c na, g miao software engineering and service, 2010 ieeexplore.
A pivotal part of the ontologydriven application infrastructure is osf web service, which is platformindependent web services middleware. Modeldriven engineering with owl refinements in several dimensions refinements along metamodeling levels models 2009, ecmfa 2010 refinements along model specification dl 2009, ekaw 2010 from business developer to software developer refinements along platform specification er 2008 for ontology translations refinements along time. Sep 15, 2011 producing timely and customeroriented products is a key factor for manufacturers success in competing in the recent global economic era. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. While these standards provide a technical infrastructure, software developers have little. Even without extensive integration, ability to query a database to instantiate the ontology, even in assisted mode, will in our opinion be of tremendous value. Ontologydriven service composition for endusers springerlink. Ontologydriven geographic information systems the use of an ontology, translated into an active information system component, leads to ontologydriven information systems odis guarino 1998 and, in the speci. Ontologies are formal representations of knowledge about a given domain. A manufacturing system engineering ontology model on the. The distinctive property of these paradigms is the reliance. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontologybased. Ontology driven model for an engineered agile healthcare system. The ontology builder must reconcile the existing formal knowledge with knowl edge from the users expert or otherwise.
An example information integration scenario is outlined in order to illustrate the practical application of our approach. Osf web service is an abstraction layer that provides the apis, search endpoints, and specific web services for accessing, querying or getting results sets from the underlying structured data and ontologies. Srivastava department of electrical and computer engineering. Software project management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. An ontology driven multiagent sensor web has the potential to forever change the way in which geospatial data and knowledge is accessed and used. There are cases in which ontologies are applied to generic aspects. Bivens, r, haimson, ol 2016 baking gender into social media design. Ontologydriven methods for knowledge acquisition and.
Ontologydriven software development springer for research. We developed a system that automates the creation of diagnostic decisionsupport applications. Protege environment appeal to the software engineering community. Information systems development has to deal with evolving technologies and changing environments.
This framework is grounded on the prior related work that studied the. Towards an ontologydriven framework to enable development. Ontology is formal and explicit specification of a shared conceptualization studer, 1998. Ontologydriven software development in the context of the semantic web. Ontologydriven method engineering for information systems development. Current trends and perspectives in ontologydriven software development odsd prof. The most evident use of an ontology is in association with the database. Business transformation through innovation and knowledge management. A general manufacturing system engineering mse knowledge representation scheme, called an mse ontology model, to facilitate communication and information exchange in interenterprise, multidisciplinary engineering design teams has been. Modeldriven engineering mde is a software development methodology which focuses on creating and exploiting domain models that is abstract representations of the knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain, rather than on the computing or algorithmic concepts. Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering. The results of our preliminary research on building an ontology for a given domain revealed four important issues related to ontologydriven information systems. Model driven engineering and ontology development request pdf.
Software engineers can have a great effect during these steps on the quality of the software produced and on its development cost. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the. Based on them, it is possible to create more expressive knowledge bases that can be shared, extended and reused in different scenarios. A case study of ontologydriven development of intelligent. The key to effectiveness here is to design the interface or the api for a software engineer, as opposed to a. Of course, you could use owl in order to describe the construction of a software system. The purpose of the rules is to join the different levels of the framework and to create the instances of a given level of the framework according to the knowledge defined in the superior. Abstract this article presents a case study of ontologydriven development of intelligent educational systems. The framework proposed for specifying, adapting and implementing educational processes is an ontological infrastructure provided with rules and a support tool. This paper therefore presents a framework that positions ontologies at the centre of the software development process. This paper aims to survey the new methodology and tools for userdefined applications development, based on serviceoriented computing soc and model driven approach mda, when all computing units, both hardware and software, can be treated as services and domain ontology acts as a metamodel basis to generate a conceptual model for specific information systems. Ontology driven requirements engineering methodology ontorem. Ontology driven software development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking and process guidance for ontology driven software development odsd. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.
A prototype for ontology driven development of web. Recently, it has become less common to develop new software from scratch. This workshop is the 7th in a series of oopslasplash workshops on the general theme of ontologies in systems development, evolution and integration. Thus, it must be embedded in any software framework as an instructional engineering tool, to inform the runtime environment of the knowledge that is processed by actors, and their situation toward achieving. The tool describes the overall ontology driven approach and the intermethod ontology mappings that drive the intertool information flow requirements. More specifically this is the second event titled ontologydriven software engineering.
Proceedings of the 14th international business information management association conference 14th ibima, 23 24 june 2010, istanbul, turkey. Ontology driven requirements engineering methodology ontorem ontorem this research aims to investigate and develop an ontology driven requirements engineering methodology ontorem that addresses the needs of complex, transnational and multidisciplinary fields with particular reference but not limited to the aerospace industry. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic. Customer needs are becoming more complex as a result of. The time and technology is here to stand software engineering on its head.
What we learned from using ontologies as infrastructure for software or how does it taste to eat our own dogfood csongor nyulas, natalya f. Ontologydriven requirements elicitation in product. Ontologybased specification, identification and analysis of. Ontology driven software engineering for real life applications michel vanden bossche 1, peter ross 2, ian maclarty, bert van nu. In order for a software agent to understand the meaning of these expressions, the agent needs access to the ontology they give to 4. Ontology driven software development for automated documentation. Towards ontologydriven institutional is engineering. Mission critical it odase the most advanced ontologydriven software development environment with codegeneration odase is an ontologydriven development approach and platform, which cleanly separates the business domain knowledge at the description level from the software engineering knowledge at the execution level. A support of independent processes outside of information system, using an ontology driven application. A pivotal part of the ontology driven application infrastructure is osf web service, which is platformindependent web services middleware.
Ontology driven software engineering for real life applications. Methodology for an ontology driven product configuration process. It brings stateoftheart ontology reasoning into mainstream software development and its. Akella kaiser malek ronald fernandes knowledge based systems, inc. An ontologydriven software development framework core. Current trends and perspectives in ontologydriven software. Ontologydriven software development in the context of the. Ontology driven model for an engineered agile healthcare system by balaji ramadoss a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy department of electrical engineering college of engineering university of south florida comajor professor. Ontologydriven conceptual modeling with applications. This paper introduces a novel framework for ontologydriven software engineering. An ontologydriven framework for processoriented applications perakath benjamin kumar v. Nik kasabov1, stephen macdonell1 1 auckland university of technology, school of computer and information sciences, knowledge engineering and discovery research institute kedri.
The system, called owiki, is an instantiation of a more general model, named gaffe, that exploits ontologies to generate metadata editors. Full text of international journal of computer science october 2010. The oasysbased engineering methodology is an ontology based autonomous system generic development process based on the oasys ontological constructs bermejoalonso2010b, in terms of phases, tasks and work products, having as guideline the ontological elements in the system engineering and asys engineering subontologies. An ontologydriven framework for specifying, adapting and. 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. Little attention has been paid to allowing endusers without sufficient service composition skills to compose services and integrate soa solutions into their online experience to fulfill their daily activities. The methodology integrates several ontology based reasoning techniques for validating the product specifications as well as the resulting product configurations.
It should be distinct from any software engineering process. As the semantic web shapes the future of the web, it becomes more and more important in software engineering and enterprise application development. Therefore, the engineering of methods as the problem of. The major components include ontology models, patient engagement features, and. Pdf ontologydriven software development in the context of the. The paper presents an approach to the support of the requirements engineering. In software engineering, ontologies can capture the knowledge of a. Ontologydriven guidance for requirements elicitation stefan farfeleder 1,thomasmoser2, andreas krall,torst.
Ontologybased representation of simulation models katarina grolinger, miriam a. This research describes this far reaching vision, identi. Ontologydriven generation of wiki content and interfaces. Ontology driven software development with mercury michel vanden bossche, peter ross, ian maclarty, bert van nuffelen, nikolay pelov melbourne august 14th, 2007 based on swese 07 paper ontology driven software engineering for real life applications. After a successful first edition, odise 2010 will focus on the specific themes that emerged in 2009. A support of independent processes outside of information. An ontology driven approach for knowledge discovery in. We present how we used odase to build a 250 person month einsurance project for a multinational insurance. Ontologydriven software engineering odse is a software development approach where ontologies are used to perform a majority of operations in software development. Ontology engineering is still considered an art, rather than and engineering activity. In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that substantiate one, many or all domains of discourse.
Ontology driven software engineering ieee conference. An ontology definition framework for model driven development. Towards an ontologydriven software development approach. It demonstrates how to apply ontology reasoning in the lifecycle of software development, using current and emerging standards and technologies. Eric ej814047 an ontology and a software framework for. A relevant initiative from the software engineering community called model driven engineering mde is being developed in parallel with the semantic web mellor et al. The ontologydriven approach to support the requirements engineering process in scrum framework. Understand how to develop odsd guidance engines for important software development activities, such as requirement engineering, domain modeling and. It relies on a medical ontology to direct the acquisition of clinic data from a clinical data warehouse and uses an automated analytic system to apply a sequence of machine learning algorithms that create applications for diagnostic screening.
In this paper we introduce odase ontology driven architecture for software engineering. Ontology development could facilitate or improve substantially the software development process through the improvement of knowledge management, the increase of software and artefacts reusability, and the establishment of. Ontologydriven guidance for requirements elicitation. This paper presents a platform for ontology driven wis development.
Towards ontology driven software design springerlink. Jiangqiang li is with the school of software engineering, beijing univer sity of technology. Introduction information system is engineering is quite different from software engineering. This book is about a significant step forward in software development. Ontology based software engineering listed as obse. Design patterns have emerged in computer science from the pioneering architectural work of christopher alexander 1, firstly applied to software engineering 3, then to workflows 11, hci 10, data modelling 8, knowledge engineering 2, and eventually the semantic web 4,5,9, where they are known as ontology design patterns odp. Is engineering, institutional is, ontology, legal ontology. Using a kr technique is an option in the field of software engineering. Keywords algorithms, datafication, data justice, data ontology. While existing ontology engineering tools provide a stack of ontology management support and are used successfully in certain domains, there still remains a gap between the ontology engineering. An ontology driven approach for knowledge discovery in biomedicine paulo gottgtroy1, prof. Semantic modeldriven engineering uni koblenzlandau.
This paper investigates ontologybased approaches for representing information semantics and in particular the world wide web. These issues are made worse through implementation affecting the. Acquiring new competencies is the central goal of any education or knowledge management process. The development of web information systemswis is a hot research topic both in industry and academia. The importance given to competency management is well justified. A shift to generic applications driven by adaptive ontologies. Ontologydriven software development ebook by 9783642312267. The development of the intended ontologies and of the needed. Model driven engineering mde is a software development methodology which focuses on creating and exploiting domain models that is abstract representations of the knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain, rather than on the computing or algorithmic concepts. Both gaffe and owiki are presented in this paper, with particular attention to the way they exploit ontologies to model the. In ontology driven software development for automated documentation, a different approach is adopted for software development as compared to our existing traditional approaches. Full text of international journal of computer science.
Ontology driven software development for automated. Ontology driven software development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking and process guidance for ontologydriven software development odsd. Mar 24, 2011 current service composition techniques and tools are mainly designed for use by serviceoriented architecture soa professionals to solve business problems. In order to develop ontologies, several methodologies have been proposed during the last two decades. An ontologydriven system for detecting global health. Ontologies in the software engineering process wolfgang hesse using ontologies in software engineering and technology francisco ruiz, jose r. What is the difference between owl and uml in the software. Those operations can range from system modeling to software generation wiebe and chan, 2012. The world wide web represents a new space through which any kind of organization can offer services and data. An interactive ontologydriven information system for. Instead, software is developed by adapting andor combining existing reusable software architectures, components such as cots, frameworks. Nigel collier, reiko matsuda goodwin, john mccrae, son doan, ai kawazoe, mike conway, asanee kawtrakul, koichi takeuchi, dinh dien.
Jan 21, 2014 mission critical it odase the most advanced ontology driven software development environment with codegeneration odase is an ontology driven development approach and platform, which cleanly separates the business domain knowledge at the description level from the software engineering knowledge at the execution level. Ontology driven scheduling system for manufacturing 511 which is the mass product of unique and personalized products and elimination of the waste from the manufacturing. This frame is used in the case of institutions, where activities are governed by laws. The software engineering community has recognized ontologies as a promising way to support the software development process 5. Despite the fact, that quite a number of ontology engineering methodologies have been proposed, still the field lacks widely. The huge diffusion of this internet service has led to develop a new kind of software systems, called web applications with the new concept of the semantic web the development of web applications should evolve including, in their implementation, the use. Based on this definition, we developed a risk identification ontology rio and. Novosibirsk state technical university, karla marks. Algorithms, ontology, and social progress andrew iliadis, 2018. Ontology driven software engineering for real life. The objective of this study is to develop an ontologydriven survivor engagement framework to facilitate rapid development of mobile apps that are targeted, extensible, and engaging. Software engineers who are interested in the benefits and potentials of semantic web. An overview on the use of ontologies in software engineering.