Ontology driven software development for automated documentation. Ontologybased data integration between clinical and research. Software architecture document for the software architecture. The thesis consists of an experiment of applying a generic software tool to a speci. The tool in the application is to support software process improvement work after assessment.
The nist health it program will help improve the quality and availability of healthcare and reduce healthcare costs by enabling the establishment of an emerging health it network that is correct, complete, secure, usable, and testable. That listing was presented as the sweet compendium of ontology building tools. Archimind is a semantic wiki for software architecture sa documentation. We also look at techniques where ontologies support coding and code documentation. Ontologybased architecture to support software process. Ontologybased software architecture documentation ieee xplore. A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of filebased documents. The effectiveness of ontology based data integration is closely tied to the consistency and expressivity of the ontology used in the integration process. Ontologybased dataextraction system alan wessman department of computer science master of science extraction of information from semistructured or unstructured documents, such as web pages, is a useful yet complex task. The enterprise architecture ontology is composed of ontology for business terms, ontology for enterprise architecture components and ontology for relationships of the components. It is mapping between software requirement specification and the knowledge base. Until recently work on accepted practices in systems and software engineering sse has appeared somewhat disjointed from that breaking ground in the area of formal information representation on the world wide web commonly referred to as the semantic web initiative. An exploratory study on ontology engineering for software. Ontology based data integration involves the use of ontology s to effectively combine data or information from multiple heterogeneous sources.
The stakeholders of a software system are, to a greater or lesser extent, concerned about its software architecture, as an essential artifact for capturing the key design decisions of the system. The architecture is normally documented in the software architecture document sad, which tends to be a large and complex technical description, and does not always address the information needs of. The ontology based enterprise architecture is modeled in three levels as shown in fig. In this paper we develop an ontology based approach to manage ak in order to partly mitigate the deficiencies of existing ak approaches in a distributed software devotement. Ontologybased software test case generation funded by. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontologybased. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Software engineering ontology for software engineering. It also produces a software prototype with appropriate documentation. The simulation functionality of simantics platform is in plugins. Architecture or xda that addresses many of the problems associated with the construction of complex distributed information systems. A software redocumentation process using ontology based. Ontologybased software architecture documentation vrije.
A platform to automatically generate and incorporate. We have evaluated this ontologybased approach in a controlled industry experiment involving software professionals. An ontologybased approach for software architecture. This approach offers a singledimensional perspective on the architectural knowledge contained. The storage module is a repository that stores the metadata files and ontologies. Now, again because of some client and internal work, we have researched the space again and updated the listing.
In this chapter we in vestigate how an on tology can be used for retrieving ak from. An ontology for reusable and executable decision templates. 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 concepts and. An ontologybased approach for sa recommendations twentythird americas conference on information systems, boston, 2017 1 an ontologybased approach for software architecture recommendations full paper manoj bhat technische universitat munchen manoj. In this group, we consider ontologybased documentation approaches that implement a basic software ontology and semantic wiki tools, thus to address the limitations of filebased documentation for. Software architecture, architectural knowledge management, architectural design. A software component populates an sql template with information stored in the ontologies.
Knowledge retrieval from filebased architecture documentation is efficient if the perspective. It is intended to capture and convey the significant architectural decisions which have been made on the system. Ultimately any software and information architecture only provides utility when deployed. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontologybased software engineering. In this section, we deal with the knowledge representation, namely, development of an ontology based on the usdsp template built in sec. The research paper published by ijser journal is about requirements analysis based on ontology techniques. Ontologybased software engineering how is ontology. The ontologybased enterprise architecture is modeled in three levels as shown in fig. The structure and content for an architectural description is given insection three of this paper. 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. Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multisite software development environment. Ontology based data management 3 data is widespread into separate pieces of documentation that are often di cult to access and rarely conforming to common standards. An ontologybased enterprise architecture sciencedirect. This documentation is an entry to the ontology ecosystem for new ontology developers, as well as experienced ones.
Research has demonstrated that ontologies may be used to achieve a high degree of accuracy in data extraction while maintaining. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an ontology. This approach offers a singledimensional perspective on the architectural. From the process objects associated with the respective resources, the user can gain information about the organizational context i. Ontologybased software architecture documentation abstract. The ontologybased business architecture engineering framework. 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. At the beginning of this year structured dynamics assembled a listing of ontology building tools at the request of a client. Flexible software architectures for ontologybased information systems michael wessel. System architecture of the ontologybased application server. A domainspecific ontology for it benchmarking has been developed to bridge the gap between a systematic characterization of it services and their databased valuation. A srs document has been developed with a standard template of the srs document.
There are two popular ontology development diagramsweb ontology language owl and frame. 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. Ontologybased information management in design processes. Listing of 185 ontology building tools ai3adaptive. Ontology engineering aims to make explicit the knowledge contained in software applications, and organizational procedures for a particular domain. Abstract we have designed a method by using which one can analyse the requirement document of the software. Using ontology to support development of software architectures. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic web in systems and software engineering. Each subsection of section three describes the form and content of a section of an architecture document. A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of file based documents. The problem of interest to us is how to design such structure, with a particular approach in. Ontologybased data integration involves the use of ontologys to effectively combine data or information from multiple heterogeneous sources.
Citeseerx ontologybased software architecture documentation. We propose an ontology engineering approach for use in software projects. A software redocumentation process using ontology based approach in software maintenance sugumaran nallusamy, suhaimi ibrahim, and mohd nazri mahrin. To represent the knowledge base we have chosen ontology techniques. Ontology based information management in design processes 5 documentation of organizational context. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the. We choose the frame diagram because it is based on a closedworld assumption where everything is prohibited. The approach was applied to construct a useful ontology in industry. Rodrigues software development technologies lab center for information technology renato archer campinas, sp, brazil abstract every software has an architecture, but in most cases it is poorly documented. Regarding software maintenance, kc02 expects that \50% of a programmers time is spent trying to understand existing code. The ontology and the corresponding mappings to the data sources provide a common ground for the documentation of all the data in the organisation, with obvious ad.
The example that we will use to illustrate the modelling and. In this approach the architecture is captured by an instance of an ontology. With ontology based software engineering, the software engineering terms can be parsed with software engineering ontology concepts and can recall the necessary details and relevant information. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts what they are, how they are related, and.
Nevertheless, documentation becomes more and more important. One of the most important, the integrated shared care health record is illustrated in the figure below. The use cases referred to should contain central functionality, many architectural elements or specific delicate parts of the architecture. A dual process architecture for ontologybased systems antonio lieto1. An ontologybased approach for software architecture recommendations full paper manoj bhat. In this approach the architecture is captured by an.
This paper presents a novel approach for the ontologybased integration of heterogeneous medical data between clinical and research databases. Ontologybased information management in design processes 5 documentation of organizational context. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an. Keywordssoftware architecture documentation, software ar. The models will be humanreadable in different ways to inform nhs gis implementers, and it will be possible to also use them to generate the necessary template databases and even to develop intelligent health gis solutions using software agents for running the modelled applications. The term ontology has become popular in several fields of informatics like artificial intelligence, agent systems, database or web technology. A dual process architecture for ontologybased systems.
Ontologybased data management 3 data is widespread into separate pieces of documentation that are often di cult to access and rarely conforming to common standards. Ontologybased data integration between clinical and. Plugins are external computational tools, such as solvers and other analysis software applications. Semantic modeldriven architecting of servicebased software. An ontologybased approach for modelling architectural styles. An extensible, ontologybased, distributed information.
The architecture of the business processes bp of an enterprise is defined as the type of processes it contains and the relationships among them. The documentation generation platform implementsa twostep process. With ontologybased software engineering, the software engineering terms can be parsed. It is one of the multiple data integration approaches and may be classified as globalasview gav. Content ontology design patterns qualities, methods, and tools. Ontology for semantic data integration in the domain of it. We will provide a highlevel overview of the philosophy and design of xda with emphasis on ontology support, followed by a description of some concrete problem domains with associated ontologybased. Semantic metadata and the ontology are loaded into the inference engine. Nov 21, 2011 the ontology based business architecture engineering framework. The ontology community and ontology core team maintain the documentation we welcome you to help us with this.
The architecture of openehr is designed to support the construction of a number of types of system. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an ontologybased search approach adriana maria figueiredo, julio c. It generates an sql statement for each mapping node in the mapping ontology. In this paper we develop an ontologybased approach to manage ak in order to partly mitigate the deficiencies of existing ak approaches in a distributed software devotement. Improving access to software architecture knowledge an ontology based search approach adriana maria figueiredo, julio c. In this paper, we propose a recommendation system that automatically annotates architectural elements in software architecture documents. We may define an architecture for the whole of an enterprise of for some portion thereof. Radicioni1 and marcello frixione2 1dipartimento di informatica, universit a di torino, torino, italy 2dafist, universit a di genova, genova, italy 3icarcnr, palermo, italy fantonio.
Ontologybased software architecture documentation ieee. Architectural knowledge needed by diverse document users was acquired and modeled. A template for documenting software and firmware architectures. Few ontology engineering approaches for software architecture documentation exist. The ontology based approach is to produce a schema from the legacy system to descri be the context of the software system or in terms of the domain specific concepts. Ontology based dataextraction system alan wessman department of computer science master of science extraction of information from semistructured or unstructured documents, such as web pages, is a useful yet complex task. This document provides a comprehensive architectural overview of the system, using a number of different architectural views to depict different aspects of the system. An extensible, ontologybased, distributed information system. Requirements pattern software specification ontology. In proceedings of the 10th international conference on intelligent software methodologies, tools and techniques somet, september 2830, 2011, saintpetersburg, russia. Ontology engineering offers a direction for overcoming semantic obstacles, such as those related to the definitions of business terms and software classes.
During the process of architecture documentation, providing relevant. Pdf ontologybased software architecture documentation. The platforms highlevel architecture is illustrated in. An ontologybased approach for software architectural. Ontologybased architecture documentation approac h. We will provide a highlevel overview of the philosophy and design of xda with emphasis on ontology support, followed by a description of some concrete problem domains with associated ontology based. Abstracta common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of filebased documents. The documentation serves the purpose of providing a clear understanding of ontologys technology and ecosystem. The relevant techniques are developed through the use of. Since information is generally collected during a benchmark exercise using questionnaires on a broad range of topics, such as employee costs, software licensing costs, and quantities of hardware, it is commonly stored as. Tyree in this paper we propose an approach to software development that focuses on architecture decisions and involves the use of ontology. Ontologybased software architecture documentation klaas. The client software application, simantics workbench, is built on the eclipse platform, and contains all the graphical tools for modelling, visualisation, and other operations. Several documentation methods for architectural knowledge have been proposed in the literature.
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