Ontology based software development

A comparative study of approaches of ontology driven. It goes without saying that software is a very big deal. Enterprise ontology based development of information systems. Introduction software testing is a sub area of software engineering which is also a knowledge intensive and collaborative activity12. An ontologybased approach for software architecture. Kif is a syntax for firstorder logic that is based on sexpressions.

Ontologybased cns software development request pdf. Rameshkumar international journal of communication, computation and innovation. The results indicated that the ontology met the general requirement as a domain vocabulary, and it. Ontologybased multisite software development methodology. 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 internal consistency within. Models are orientedto realization but ontologiesare not.

As demonstrations, we have loaded the ontology of adverse events oae and the cell line ontology clo into ontobedia. In section 2 we discuss some issues concerning tool integration in sees and how ontologies can be used to improve integration. Building ontology based tools for a software development. Integrating tools for supporting software project time. The new approach should be based on semantically enriched service models allowing easier development and modular applications for multiple domains.

We based our choice for ontowiki on evalu ation of semantic wikis by. On the other hand the ontology based overall model can be easily validated through automated tools. Ontologies are mostly intended to be used at runtime and they have. Generic software engineering ontology represents knowledge in the software engineering discipline which is concerned with all processes of software production from the stages of software requirements through software verification and validation. Ontologybased software engineering obse approach are outlined. Jul 20, 2016 based on the ontokiwimediawiki software package, we have developed ontobedia, which targets to support community based development and annotations of biological and biomedical ontologies. Meanwhile, research in service ontology and serviceoriented architecture is producing the muchneeded technologies to link functional context of services with requirement features, and to automate the discovery and composition of services. The paper progresses on to the software engineering ontology. Development of an ontologybased configuration management system 3 model for configuration management system is complete and ready, the semantic web application development begins. An ontologybased requirement modeling for interactive. The goal is not to produce a general ontology or editor, but comparative methods and behavior data entry tools ethontos and owlwatcher. Ontology engineering also called ontology building is a set of tasks related to the development of ontologies for a particular domain. Keywords software testing ontology, software testing knowledge, ontology based knowledge management system, knowledge sharing. Within this approach, authors present the process of creating the concepts, individuals, and relationships to support different case studies.

This paper describes the use of ontologies in different aspects of software. Towards ontology based sqa recommender for agile software development nada o bajnaid1, rachid benlamri2, algirdas pakstas 3 and shahram salekzamankhani4 1king abdulaziz university, saudi arabia 2lakehead university, ontario, canada 3,4london metropolitan university, uk corresponding author. In addition, the application of the proposed approach is demonstrated using an engineering software development example and a prototype ontology based software development environment. The worlds first and only software engineering ontology and a project management ontology in conjunction with a domain ontology are used to provide support for software development that is taking. May 12, 2011 the new approach should be based on semantically enriched service models allowing easier development and modular applications for multiple domains. Towards ontologybased sqa recommender for agile software development nada o bajnaid1, rachid benlamri2, algirdas pakstas 3 and shahram salekzamankhani4 1king abdulaziz university, saudi arabia 2lakehead university, ontario, canada 3,4london metropolitan university, uk corresponding author.

Introduction the software engineering and knowledge engineering. Advantages of ontology based feature driven development are also discussed. Ode was designed as an ontology based knowledge management environment for software engineering 7, supporting domain ontology creation and management, as well as ontology based software. In, the authors presented an ontology based on owls that helps to describe quality properties defined in iso 25010 and linked to software product. An ontologybased system to support distributed software. Ontology engineering is a set of tasks related to the development of ontologies for a particular domain. Towards ontologybased sqa recommender for agile software. Identify configuration item ci this step is to identify the necessary cis to establish a baseline set of our ontology based system. Besides knowing the importance of testing, only limited. We have proposed, an ontology based reuse algorithm towards process planning in software development. This paper describes an ontology based multidomain software development approach called ontologybasedcontrolroomframework ontocor featuring high software code reusage and rapid development.

Dietz, journalinternational journal of internet and enterprise management, year2011, volume7, pages4163. The semantic web layer makes ontologies and interfaces available to the public, whereas the internal layer consists of the control and reasoning mechanisms. Applications of ontologies in software engineering web scienceen. Natsuda, an ontologybased method for measurement of transferability and complexity of knowledge in multisite software development environment, knowledge, information and creativity support systems6746, lncs2011 pp. An on going research project at the tokyo institute of technology is looking at supporting. Software engineering concepts, ideas and knowledge, software development methodologies, tools and techniques are organised into a software engineering ontology and used as the basis for classifying the concepts in communication thereby enabling questions, problem solving and sharing solution development and knowledge to be shared between multi. Ontology driven software development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking and process guidance for ontologydriven software development odsd. A new article out of ai 3 discusses the need for ontologybased approaches in software engineering. We have proposed, an ontology based reuse algorithm towards process planning in software develop ment. There are a variety of tools, including graphics editors, with more to come. This is an ontologybased web application that allows the community to register, view, and find ontologies, methodologies, software tools and languages for ontologies development, programs in semantic web, ecommerce, nlp, etc.

Semantic web, feature driven development,agile development. Ontologybased software engineering software engineering 2. Steps of otk methodology and commonkads model suite 3. It helps us to coordinate the work of an international team by using. Ontologybased multisite software development methodology and. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve. Applications of ontologies in software engineering 5 time usage of ontologies in applications.

Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering. The purpose of this project is to develop ontology based tools for the study of animal behavior ethology. Ontology rule based retrieval of knowledge sharing and trust behavior. Keywordssoftware testing ontology, software testing knowledge, ontology based knowledge management system, knowledge sharing.

Ontologybased knowledge management system for industry cluster 5 figure 1. The paper proposes an ontologybased approach to support for requirements traceability in agile development. An ontologybased approach to support for requirements. We listed the steps in the ontology development process and addressed the complex issues of defining class hierarchies and properties of classes and instances. In this research, the authors developed an ontology and a da procedure based on it. An ontologybased context model for managing security.

Several software modules were designed and implemented in an integrated system to support main activities and persian language. Problemsolving methods, domainindependent applications, and software agents use ontologies and knowledge bases built from ontologies as data. Our methodology, utilising ontologybased multisite software development, is given in section 4. Following this trend, recently, agile development methodologies have been proposed in the field of ontology engineering as well e. Knowledge based applications use ontologies for knowledge sharing, which forms the primary use of ontologies. Twouse toolkit is an implementation of current omg and w3c standards for developing ontology based software models and model based owl2 ontologies, largely based around uml. Analysing enterprise ontology and its suitability for. Ontology engineering offers a direction towards solving the interoperability problems brought about by semantic obstacles, i. A brief overview of the benefits of requirements traceability usage is given. We also look at techniques where ontologies support coding and code documentation. Development of ontologybased software security learning system with contextualized learning approach. The group serves as the link between biological knowledge that is gained from wetbench scientists and the representation of that knowledge in the go.

Software project management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. Ontologies are used for formal representation of domain knowledge. It is a subfield of knowledge engineering that studies the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tools and languages that support. Abstractlearning software security is one of the most. An ontology based reuse algorithm towards process planning in. An ontologybased knowledge framework for software testing.

We propose a conceptual architecture for an ontology based multiagent system to provide active support to access software engineering domain knowledge and to recommend software development project captured in the software engineering ontology. Norwegian university of science and technology, gjovik, norway. The task of supporting the requirements traceability in a software development project is considered as a part of requirements engineering process. Idef5 is a software engineering method to develop and maintain usable, accurate, domain ontologies. Current trends and perspectives in ontology driven software development odsd prof. Software security has been the focus of the security community and practitioners over the past decades. The paper proposes an ontology based approach to support for requirements traceability in agile development.

Knowledge can be applied to different testing tasks and purposes. Ontology rule based retrieval of knowledge sharing and. An ontology based reuse algorithm towards process planning. Ode has several tools, some of them supporting the project management process, such as tools to support software process definition.

This paper describes an ontology based multidomain software development approach called ontology based controlroomframework ontocor featuring high software code reusage and rapid development. The advancements in software product lines have initiated a shift of focus from the development of individual to lines of software products. Ontologydriven software development in the context of the. Several relevant approaches to applying software engineering techniques to ontology development lead to uml based tools that enable the development of ontologies using software engineering languages. Ontology development tools for ontology based knowledge. It demonstrates how to apply ontology reasoning in the lifecycle of software development, using current and emerging standards and technologies. Reuse during software development depends much on the existing design knowledge in metamodel, a read only repository of information.

Akerman and tyree 2006 propose an ontologybase d approach to support software development with the focus on adds and its associated concepts such as archi tectural assets and stakeholder. Ontologybased software development tries to address significant problems of traditional software development in order to improve the code quality and to avoid redundant development. Nextgen and sesar moving towards ontologybased software. This paper proposes an ontologybased approach to facilitate collaboration between domain experts and software engineers for development of engineering. Communitybased ontology development, annotation and. Several situations ontology development is a continuous and collaborative task. Volume 2, issue 2, 2011 abstract software testing is a prime factor in software industry. Software tools processing partially common set of data should share an understanding of what these data mean. The software engineering discipline covers many aspects of software development. It is not an isolation tool for ontology development. In this paper, we present an enterprise ontology that supports the development of two case tools. Ontologybased software development techniques ercim. Ontology rule based retrieval of knowledge sharing and trust.

In this paper we present ode ontologybased software development environment, a see developed using ontologies. The challenges are similar in the area of ontology engineering. Pdf an ontologybased approach for software architecture. Ontologies in the software engineering process ceur workshop. A key goal for nemo is the development of a formal logic ontology to support data sharing, logicbased queries and mappingintegration of patterns across data from different labs, different experiment paradigms, and different modalities eegmeg.

In this paper, we present the key challenges in multisite software engineering and the ontology representation of commonly shared conceptualisations in software development. Marques and ralha 32 propose an ontology, which is related to the. Introduction knowledge of software security is highly complex since it is quite contextspeci. No matter what the metrics, it is expensive to develop and maintain software. Akerman and tyree 2006 propose an ontology based approach to support software development with the focus on adds and its associated concepts such as architectural assets and stakeholder concerns. Ontology development tools based on software engineering techniques. The proposed architecture covers main activities for ontology construction and also provides a platform for collaborative ontology development.

According to the common conceptual base facilitated by ontology and the characteristics of knowledge, the concepts and the entities are represented into metamodel and endeavor prospects. Some ontology design ideas in this guide originated from the literature on objectoriented design rumbaugh et al. Some considerations are given to the software development environment needed for realization of the proposed approach. An ongoing research project at the tokyo institute of technology is looking at supporting. In this guide, we have described an ontology development methodology for declarative frame based systems. We demonstrate the agent communication with developers in the form of manmachine interactions and the great potential of such a system to be used in the future for. Suokif is a derivative version supporting the suggested upper merged ontology. Ode ontologybased software development environment falbo et al. Ontologybased software development techniques by motoshi saeki an ongoing research project at the tokyo institute of technology is looking at supporting softwarerequirements elicitation and composing software from reusable architectures, frameworks, components and software packages. It focuses on improving efficiency and increasing the code reusability in order to achieve sesars and nextgens claim for a performancebased and costefficient system. The worlds first and only software engineering ontology and a project management ontology in conjunction with a domain ontology are used to provide support for. It focuses on improving efficiency and increasing the code reusability. Webode supports varied ontology related services and most of the activities involved in the ontology development process.

The worlds first and only software engineering ontology and a project management ontology in conjunction with a domain ontology are used to provide support for software development that is taking place at multiple sites. Ontowiki is open source and aims to support collaborative knowledge engineering. To evaluate them, theoretical analysis, case studies, and a user acceptance survey were used. This groups purpose is to ensure that the gene ontology represents biology in a way that is useful for gene product annotation of reference genomes and other mods using the go for annotation.

Ontology based feature driven development life cyclee. An ontologybased system to support distributed software development rodrigo g. An ontologybased knowledge management system for software. A simplified agile methodology for ontology development. An ontologybased context model for managing security knowledge in software development shaofang wen, basel katt norwegian university of science and technology gjovik, norway shaofang.

Architecture mda approach for the use in the software development process. An ontology based system to support distributed software development rodrigo g. Ontology based software development techniques by motoshi saeki an ongoing research project at the tokyo institute of technology is looking at supporting software requirements elicitation and composing software from reusable architectures, frameworks, components and software packages. Ontology driven software development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking and process guidance for ontology driven software development odsd. The proposed ontology shows that the proposed security ontology can be used in modeling and designing security issues and concepts in each phase of the development process with mda. Developing an ontology is akin to defining a set of data and their structure for other programs to use. In this paper we discuss an ontologybased approach to improve tool integration and present ode, an. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve integration in software engineering environments see. Development of ontologybased software security learning. Ontologybased software engineering software engineering. Ontology development is largely aimed at ai experts with knowledge of diverse techniques originating from the field of ai. We use protege to model the underlying ontologies that connect data integration with business supporting algorithms.

The software engineering ontology is used as a communication framework to enable knowledge sharing. An evaluation of ontology based domain analysis for model. A comparative study of approaches of ontology driven software development 445 assmann et al. Listing of 185 ontology building tools ai3adaptive. This paper proposes a knowledge base called dkdonto, a domainspecific ontology for distributed development, aiming to help projects with a common.