Artículos de revistas
Ontology driven software engineering: a review of challenges and opportunities
Fecha
2015-03Registro en:
Revista IEEE América Latina,Piscataway, NJ : IEEE,v.13, n.3, p.863-869, Mar. 2015
1548-0992
10.1109/TLA.2015.7069116
Autor
Isotani, Seiji
Bittencourt, I. I.
Barbosa, Ellen Francine
Dermeval, D.
Paiva, R. O. A.
Institución
Resumen
Ontologies are formal representations of knowledge
about a given domain. Based on them, it is possible to create more
expressive knowledge bases that can be shared, extended and
reused in different scenarios. In software engineering, ontologies
can contribute in many different ways to improve the models,
methods, techniques and processes of software development.
Nevertheless, the use and benefits of ontologies and Semantic Web
technologies in Software Engineering is spread across several
articles and books available in the literature. In this context, this
paper aims at compiling and presenting the research findings and
potential benefits when applying ontologies to address three major
challenges in software engineering: (1) difficulty in communicating
and sharing information; (2) effective management of software
development phases; and (3) development techniques and
environments to support the production of semantic software
through an interdisciplinary approach. We believe that the review
of the literature and discussions presented in this work can
contribute to disseminate best practices of using ontologies in
software development as well as to give directions about this field
of research, its challenges and opportunities.