Ontology design patterns portal is a wiki repository of reusable components and practices for ontology design, and also maintains a list of exemplary ontologies. In reality, there is a fine line where the ontology ends and the knowledge base begins. Pdf using ontologies in software engineering and technology. We investigate how semantic web technologies, in particular ontologies, can be utilised to support software component development in a web. Ontologies are used for formal representation of domain knowledge. This includes concepts such as software, data, users, access rights or interfaces. This code extracts an initial set of proposed standard go annotations from a model, and then applies filters ensuring that appropriate metadata, such as an eco evidence.
With respect to the structural dimension, the three principal component. Individuals instances are the basic, ground level components of an ontology. Pahl demonstrated the usage of two types of ontologies in the component based development context. The artificialintelligence literature contains many definitions of an ontology. A system and method for integrating databases andor web services into a searchable ontological structure.
Pr otege ontolo gy library contains a set of owl, framebased and other forma t ontologi es. Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering. The oda approach is supplementary to mda, where models abstract from lowlevel and often platformspecific implementation details. As automation requires a higher degree of accuracy in the description of. We propose in this paper an ontologybased recommender system for cots components that supports developers in cots components identification. The use of a consistent vocabulary allows genes from. Therefore, the application ontology that was constructed for this case study represents the organization of the software components of a typical information extraction application. It was originally designed by alex bogida and located in here. The ontologies based on software component and matching is mostly represented by work of claus pahl 2 who wrote an ontology for software component matching. The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. An ontology is a formal description of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships that hold between them. 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.
The chapter describes the process of ontology development for different subject domains for application designing. Welcome to the gene ontology tools developed within the bioinformatics group at the lewissigler institute. Software code handling the export of standard go annotations from a gocam model is provided by the open source minerva software, which is the data handling backend for noctua. The structure allows freeform searching of the combined system, discovering an execution path through the ontology to provide answers to queries that may require accessing multiple systems to resolve, without a need for knowledge of the available databases and.
The individuals in an ontology may include concrete objects such as people, animals, tables, automobiles, molecules, and planets, as well as abstract individuals such as numbers and words although there are differences of opinion as to whether numbers and words. We also put libraries and licenses in this core ontology and define a component profile that aggregates all. The semantic web layer makes ontologies and interfaces available to the public, whereas the. The analysis of existing approaches to ontology development for software platform realization in some subject domains is depicted. We separated the fundamental concepts in the core software ontology to facilitate reuse. Ontologybased recommender system for cots components. All concepts are specified in modal logic and based on concepts in the foundational dolce ontologies masolo et al.
An ontology is a formal representation of a body of knowledge within a given domain. Ontology patterns for serviceoriented software development. Dec 23, 2019 in reality, there is a fine line where the ontology ends and the knowledge base begins. The ontology of componentbased development activities support. The ontology of componentbased development activities support overview. In addition to the common ontology editing operations, it enables annotation of both ontology components and ontology changes. An ontology for software component matching springerlink. We use this ontology in order to semantically select relevant components based on the qos specified by the developer. We propose in this paper an ontology based recommender system for cots components that supports developers in cots components identification. Us20060015843a1 semantic system for integrating software. In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation. It requires special attention as there is a variety of interpretations that leads to ambiguity.
Knowledge based applications use ontologies for knowledge sharing, which forms the primary use of ontologies. To remedy such problems, we here present an ontology based approach to support the development and administration of software components in an application server. The ontology is intended to be used in analysis tools to record software components. Each one of the boxes in red and the three new components in blue could potentially separated into individual ontologies each with a rich description of the area they model. The core ontology of software components is based on the core software ontology to formalize our understanding of the term software component. Several relevant approaches to applying software engineering techniques to ontology.
Ontology library department of computer science, university. Ontologies usually consist of a set of classes or terms or concepts with relations that operate between them. The above seven ontologies, along with the document components ontology doco, form the original set of spar ontologies. It will consist of generic transformation service, pluggable detection components and ui component. For the purposes of this guide an ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in a domain of discourse classes sometimes called concepts, properties of each concept describing various features and attributes of the concept slots sometimes called. In the context of computers, ontology acts as a structural. You can easily upload existing ontologies and reuse them to create your own custom scheme. Problemsolving methods, domainindependent applications, and software agents use ontologies and knowledge bases built from ontologies as data. Computer ontology refers to the interpretation of a group of ideas within a specific domain that defines the interrelationship between those ideas.
Publishing workflow ontology pwo 12 18 is a simple ontology for describing the steps in the workflow associated with the publication of a document or other publication entity. Selecting the relevant components for developers qos requirements. Protege ontology library contains a set of owl, framebased and other format ontologies. The ontology captures properties of, relationships between and behaviors of the components that are required for development and administration purposes.
Aug 23, 2010 collaborative protege is a plugin extension of the existing protege system that supports collaborative ontology editing as well as annotation of both ontology components and ontology changes. This web page is a concise presentation of the ontology related to the support of componentbased development activities. An ontology for software component matching claus pahl dublin city university, school of computer applications dublin 9, ireland claus. When building and using ontologies, it is crucial to remember that ontologies are graphs, not trees, and relations between their components may be multidirectional. Listing of 185 ontology building tools ai3adaptive. Many components providing interfaces to other knowledgebased tools jess, argenon, oil, pal constraint, etc. Matching is a central activity in the discovery and assembly of reusable software components.
What are ontologies and what are the benefits of using. Instead, software is developed by adapting andor combining existing reusable software architectures, components such as cots, frameworks such as struts and turbine, and software packages such as erp and crm in this article, we describe these as reusable parts. Gene ontology overview an ontology is a formal representation of a body of knowledge within a given domain. Developing and managing software components in an ontology based. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts what they are, how they are related, and.
The art of both software and hardware modelling over the years has led to the development of. The core ontology of software formalizes the most fundamental concepts which are required to model both software components and web services. 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. We investigate how semantic web technologies, in particular ontologies, can be utilised to support software component development in a web environment. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.
In this study, it is believe building a common ontology in software engineering education is necessary and useful. Recently, it has become less common to develop new software from scratch. It is based on the taxonomy of information extraction software components described in cunningham 2000. A preinstalled ontology library includes a broad variety of knowledge models foaf, fibo, chebi, that you can easily extend to fit your own needs. Software architecture ontology models the architecture related concepts such as architecture styles. Software engineering ontology for software engineering. We can also use the same algorithm to configure elevators if we feed an elevator component ontology to it rothenfluh et al.
Ontology provides new highperformance public blockchains that include. Separating the different aspects of software in this way allows for both concurrent development and reuse of those components useful for other projects, for instance the organizations module for an ontology describing biomedical instruments and license module for an ontology of literature. Ontologies in the software engineering process ceur workshop. The nasa atm air traffic management ontology describes classes, properties, and relationships relevant to the domain of air traffic management, and represents information pertinent to a broad and diverse set of interacting components in the us and the global airspace, including flights, aircraft, manufacturers, airports, airlines, air routes, facilities, air traffic. Ontology design patterns portal is a wiki repository of reusabl e component s and practices for ontolo gy design, and also maintains a list of exemplar y ontologi es. Ontology development is largely aimed at ai experts with knowledge of diverse techniques originating from the field of ai. Ontology structure picture taken from owl 2 web ontology language rdfbased semantics second edition an ontology together with a set of individual instances of classes constitutes a knowledge base. Ontology management and evolution for business intelligence. Download citation software components description based on ontology the description and inquiry of software component become the hotspot and nodus of software reuse research. We report on the software ontology swo 1,2, an ontology for describing the software used within computational biology, which includes bioinformatics resources and any software tools used in the preparation and maintenance of data. To remedy such problems, we here present an ontologybased approach to support the development and administration of software components in an application server. We investigate how ontology technologies can be utilised to support software component development. This is different from using an ontology as a standalone tool for knowledge sharing and representation. The individuals in an ontology may include concrete objects such as people, animals, tables, automobiles, molecules, and planets, as well as abstract individuals such as numbers and words although there are differences of opinion as to whether numbers and words are classes or individuals.
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. Protege is supported by a strong community of academic, government, and corporate users, who use protege to build knowledgebased solutions in areas as diverse as biomedicine, ecommerce, and organizational modeling. Development of the swo is motivated by the growing interest in the recording and reproducibility of biomedical. Seedorf, schader towards an enterprise software component ontology proceedings of the thseventeenth americas conference on information systems, detroit, michigan august 4th7 2011 3 in the beginning, the ontologys purpose was stated as motivating scenario.
Input to the swo has come from beyond the life sciences, but its main focus is the life sciences. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic. The relevant techniques are developed through the use of. Ontology development tools based on software engineering techniques. The use cases relevant for developing and managing software components. We developed a system that automates the creation of diagnostic decisionsupport applications. Citeseerx an ontology for software component matching. One unique area of research is the software engineering ontology. It is broad enough, so that it can be used not only in the. We investigate how semantic web technologies, in particular ontologies, can be utilised to support. 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.
Jan 22, 2010 these components can be separated into two kinds. Secondly, that a software ontology is made of potentially modular components which may usefully be separate ontologies. Ontologies for software engineering semantic scholar. 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. We can then develop an ontology of pccomponents and characteristics and apply the algorithm to configure madetoorder pcs. An application domain ontology, which describes the software being developed and the software. The gene ontology go describes our knowledge of the biological domain with respect to three aspects. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the. The ontology in this paper includes three pieces of knowledge. Application of inference rules to a software requirements. Developing an ontology is akin to defining a set of data and their structure for other programs to use. To enable such a description, we need to formally specify components such as individuals instances of objects, classes, attributes and relations as well as restrictions, rules and axioms. The example of ontology model development for telecom operator billing system based on descriptive logic is shown. Thus, we propose a qos ontology which provides a formal, a common and an explicit description of the software components qos.
A free, opensource ontology editor and framework for building intelligent systems. Ontologydriven software development in the context of the. We use description logics, which underlie semantic web ontology languages. To the best of our knowledge, no ontologybased recommender system has been proposed to assist software engineers in identifying coarsegrained software components. We use description logics, which underlie semantic web. Developing and managing software components in an ontology. The component selection based on the qos is a hard task due to the qos descriptions heterogeneity. The web is likely to be a central platform for software development in the future. Use stanbol as a central ontology repository that mirrors the ontologies scattered aound the web, so that there will be no need to query more than a single server for all the formal knowledge managed by the cms. To the best of our knowledge, no ontology based recommender system has been proposed to assist software engineers in identifying coarsegrained software components. We use description logics, which underlie semantic web ontology languages such as owl, to develop an ontology for matching requested and provided. The nasa atm air traffic management ontology describes classes, properties, and relationships relevant to the domain of air traffic management, and represents information pertinent to a broad and diverse set of interacting components in the us and the global airspace, including flights, aircraft, manufacturers, airports, airlines, air routes, facilities, air traffic advisories. Core ontology of softwaresoftware componentsservices. Ontonet allows to construct subsets of the knowledge base managed by stanbol into owlowl2 ontology networks.