Software Engineering Ontology Research Articles

Using Semantic Documentation to Support Software Project Management

Project management is a key process for software projects. Nowadays, there are several tools that support project management activities. However, the existence of such tools did not eliminate the use of documents for documenting the outcomes of the project management process. Text documents and spreadsheets are used to support communication between stakeholders and understanding about the project. These documents are generally developed to be understood by humans and not by computers. Thus, the access to the document content typically depends on human intervention. Retrieving information from documents can be not trivial, especially when it is distributed in several documents. A semantic documentation approach can be used to deal with this issue. Combining ontologies and documents by adding semantic annotations to documents makes the document content interpretable by computers and can help diminish the burden of gathering information later on. In this paper, we present a semantic documentation approach for supporting software project management, providing a way to get useful information from data recorded in documents and spreadsheets related to scope, time and cost management. For this, we developed the first version of a Software Project Management Ontology, which is integrated into the Software Engineering Ontology Network. This ontology is used to annotate documents and spreadsheets and to develop features to support scope, time and cost management activities. These features were implemented in the Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Documents in Software Project Management, which was evaluated through an experimental study.

An Ontology-Based Multi-Agent System for Active Software Engineering Ontology

The ongoing trend towards multi-site software development not only brings the benefits but also creates additional challenges regarding remote communication and coordination. The Software Engineering Ontology (SE Ontology) was first developed to clarify the software engineering concepts and project information, and to enable knowledge sharing among dispersed teams. However, the current SE Ontology has the same passive structure as other ontologies that exist on the Web. Passive structure refers to a need to know exactly the concepts and relationships to which users are referring in the ontology. Otherwise, he/she may not be able to obtain the knowledge required. What is needed is active support that can help users find the information they need and provide them with meaningful output. In this paper, we propose an active Software Engineering Ontology through Multi-Agent System (SEOMAS) framework which is intended to provide active support to access software engineering domain knowledge and to recommend software project information captured in the SE Ontology. The UML and Agent UML are used to formalise the SEOMAS framework and to model interactions between the various agents. The prototype is developed and evaluated using several scenarios of the online shopping system development as a case study.

Meta-analysis of ontology software development process

Ontology is an important concept in Computer Science to formally represent knowledge. The software engineering ontology assists in defining information for the exchange of semantic project information framework. Research into ontological issues has been widely active in various areas. This paper presents the origin of ontology research and gives the different definitions of ontology. The paper gives an overview of ontology and its types including the building and design for an enterprise system.This review tries to study articles in which adaption model and there properties were discussed in order to get a clear review about the ontology. This study is showed a Systematic Literature Review which was used to identify important characteristic about the ontology. The research identified more than 70 paper on this study but only 46 of them was precisely relevant in the field of Ontology development processs. In this paper we analyse the ontology based on types, design, building ,model as a systematic review of the subject. And choose the best way according to that

Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development

This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described in the textbook entitled Software Engineering by Sommerville that is now in its eighth edition (2004) and the white paper, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), by the IEEE (203) upon which software engineering ontology is based. This paper gives an analysis of what software engineering ontology is, what it consists of, and what it is used for in the form of usage example scenarios. The usage scenarios presented in this paper highlight the characteristics of the software engineering ontology. The software engineering ontology assists in defining information for the exchange of semantic project information and is used as a communication framework. Its users are software engineers sharing domain knowledge as well as instance knowledge of software engineering.