Such void leaves ample room for adhoc practices that can lead to unexpected or. 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. It builds on the information in chapter 1, and it assumes that you are familiar with the major concepts associated with owl, such as. Rishi kanth saripalle a free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on id. In computer science, gruber 12 described that an ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization.
A foundational ontology can serve as a unifying framework for representing and integrating knowledge and may support the communication and harmonization of conceptual systems in the domain of discourse, whereas a domainspecific ontology is intended for sharing concepts and relations in a particular area of interest. Protege is a most popular tool for ontology editing and for developing ontology 1. Core ontology of softwaresoftware componentsservices. Swto software test ontology integrated and its application. Reader in software engineering, and khcc professor in cancer care informatics.
We present an algorithm for automatically identifying and extracting modules from owldl ontologies, an implementation and some promising empirical results on realworld ontologies. A tool to check ontologies in owldl using competency. A free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on id. Also, use of semantic web rule language swrl for representation of constraint knowledge is discussed. Developing university ontology using protege owl tool. Knowledge based applications use ontologies for knowledge sharing, which forms the primary use of ontologies. A vision for diagrammatic ontology engineering gem stapleton 1, john howse 1, adrienne bonnington 2, and jim burton 1 1 university of brighton, uk, fg. At the beginning of this year structured dynamics assembled a listing of ontology building tools at the request of a client. We propose how to transform an elearning uml class diagram into an owl ontology. Once domain ontology has been formulated, endusers can write sophisticated ontology based queries that are then.
A practical guide to building owl ontologies using the. This section is a general introduction to the jena ontology api, including some of the common tasks you may need to perform. Spo is a core ontology grounded in ufo, aiming at establishing a common conceptualization on software processes. Oct 30, 2007 an ebook reader can be a software application for use on a computer such as microsofts free reader application, or a booksized computer this is used solely as a. The knowledge generated during the software development. This project is intended to fill the gap between the semantic web and the mainstream of software engineering, especially to integrate the semantic web with programming languages, and find an ontological representation of programming languages, including abstract syntax code execution, and global interoperability in execution environments. So far, odsd approaches have mainly focused on the. Specifically, we show how the use of an owldl ontology of software engineering concepts, rdf encoding of system metadata and sparql queries over the resulting rdf graph can be used to enable languageneutral relational navigation of software systems thus facilitating software understanding and maintenance. Do ontologies dream of concepts, york sure, 2006 slide 9 methods for cost estimation known e. Pdf software engineering ontologies and their implementation.
Every legal owl lite ontology is a legal owl dl ontology. Modelling ontological and terminological resources in owl dl irit. A software engineering approach to ontology modeling. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic. Ontology model allows structure information as well as to raises the effectiveness of search. Our approach allows large lists of terms to be easily related and organized into concept hierarchies, and generally.
A concept from dl is referred to as a class in owl and a role from dl is referred to as a property in owl. Our goal is to overcome these issues by translating step in owldl 2 web ontology language description logic, which allows the application of mechanisms to check models and data validity, to check the consistency of the instances, and to infer new knowledge. The proposed research deals with the improvement of engineering knowledge classification and recognition by means of ontology usage. Using ontologies for software development knowledge reuse. The nlp ontology can contain concepts such as document, sentence, np. Our prototype implementation and case studies show that the proposed approach is feasible and effective.
Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering. Toward a software maintenance methodology using semantic. The ontology development lifecycle shares some similarities and differences from the software development. A systematic a pproach to developing ontologies for.
Phd dissertation presentation a software engineering approach to ontology modeling, design, and development with lifecycle process candidate. That listing was presented as the sweet compendium of ontology building tools. A software engineering approach to ontology building information. 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. Ontologydriven relational query formulation using the. The owl dl descriptions, data ranges, properties, individuals and data values syntax and semantics are summarized in the first table below, owl dl axioms and facts are summarized in the second table below. Chapter 4 focuses on building an owldl ontology and using a description logic reasoner to check the consistency of the ontology and automatically compute the. Modelling ontological and terminological resources in owl dl. Now, again because of some client and internal work, we have researched the space again and updated the listing. Pdf ontologies and software engineering researchgate. Ontology is defined as explicit specification of a conceptualization 6, 7. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts what they are, how they are related, and can be related to one another for representing and communicating over software engineering knowledge and project information. Reengineering of successful preowl ontologies or other formal er or uml system models towards owl dl compliance opens new possibilities in ontology debugging, enabled by the formal semantics and.
Challenges in converting framebased ontology into owl. An ontology is a model language that supports the functions to integrate conceptually distributed domain knowledge and infer relationships among the concepts. As we can see, owl dl is the description logic shoin with support of data values, data types and datatype properties, i. Current ontology modeling guidelines do not explicitly consider this aspect in the representation of such concepts. An ontology is not isolated from other ontologies, it builds up. We separated the fundamental concepts in the core software ontology to facilitate reuse. Such a statement also applies to ontology engineering. They require that the entire model be in memory, which is not possible with the 70,000 concepts and 1. Ppt a software engineering approach to ontology modeling. Using ontological engineering for developing webbased ai.
Enhancing software maintenance by using semantic web. Citeseerx enhancing software maintenance by using semantic. Ontologydriven software development odsd advocates using ontologies for. Research describes the development of ontology models for engineering knowledge in internet portal and modeling system for the classification and recognition of marine. Owl full is undecidable, so no reasoning software is able to perform complete. The next element required for the semantic web is a web ontology language which can formally describe the semantics of classes and properties used in web documents. Re engineering of successful pre owl ontologies or other formal er or uml system models towards owl dl compliance opens new possibilities in ontology debugging, enabled by the formal semantics and. An ontology for software models and its practical implications for. An ontology for software models and its practical implications for semantic web reasoning springerlink. The web ontology language owl is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Software project management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. Listing of 185 ontology building tools ai3adaptive. Parsing native owl dl into executable ontologies in.
Owl ontology extraction from relational databases via. Protein ontology or po provides a unified vocabulary for capturing declarative knowledge about protein domain and to classify that knowledge to allow reasoning. Examples of ontology model usage in engineering fields. An example ontology for searching, retrieving and using software applications, components. Brockmans and colleagues developed a metamodel based on owl dl using mof2. Towards ontology design patterns to model multiple. In software engineering it is also known as a domain model, which is concerned by domain experts. Owl dl was designed to support the existing description logic. An owl ontology to describe delegation concepts in the context of grid computing. Ontology, manufacturing supply chains, thesaurus, manufacturing service. Reengineering of successful preowl ontologies or other formal er or uml system models towards owl dl compliance opens new possibilities in ontology debugging, enabled by the formal semantics and automated reasoners developed for owl dl.
The chapter describes the process of ontology development for different subject domains for application designing. The analysis of existing approaches to ontology development for software platform realization in some subject domains is depicted. Owl dl semantics introduction to ontologies and semantic. Introduction and motivation in ontology engineering, as in software engineering, modularity is a much praised virtue. The web ontology language owl is a family of knowledge representation languages for. Ontologies are developed based on the target domain knowledge. Applications of ontologies in software engineering web scienceen. This thesis explores a very recurrent modeling scenario in ontology design that deals with the notion of real world concepts that can be classified according to multiple criteria. Ontology has explicit classes and properties and used as a standard form for knowledge representation of concepts inside a domain. Ontology development is largely aimed at ai experts with knowledge of diverse techniques originating from the field of ai. We present an algorithm for automatically identifying and extracting modules from owl dl ontologies, an implementation and some promising empirical results on realworld ontologies. Owl full is an extension of owl dl, which is an extension of owl lite, thus every owl lite ontology is owl dl and owl full ontology and every owl dl ontology is owl full ontology.
In the last 5 years, ontology engineering from texts has emerged as a promising way to reduce the cost for building and maintaining domain ontologies. A survey and classification of principles for domain. Some of our solutions suggest defining ontology design patterns gangemi, 2005. For implementing the ontologies, owl dl as ontology speci cation language, prot eg e as ontology editor and racer as the main reasoner, have. Research describes the development of ontology models for engineering knowledge in internet portal and modeling system for the classification and. We wont go into all of the many details of the api here. Ontology and ontology based application are its basic ingredients. Tools and methodologies ian horrocks information management group school of computer science university of manchester a free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on.
Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for various domains. Index terms ontology development, schema translation, relational database, database reverse engineering, owl ontology i. Introduction to ontology sudarsun s director research checktronix india chennai 600010. Ontologydriven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of owldl. We nally demonstrate the dynamic codebase created as the result of parsing some reference owl dl ontologies. The design of owl expressed in earlier versions of these documents has been. An ontology created on protege, is an ontology owl full or. Debugging owl ontologies bijan parsia university of maryland 8400 baltimore ave. Software engineering ontology for software engineering. However, there are ontologies that are structurally conformant but are not owl 2 dl ontologies. Protege is an ontology editor that can edit any ontology that follows the owl 2 structural specification.
With the ontology we can focus on only main concepts and its relationship rather than information. Committee and the hyontuse project grs44686 funded by the uk engineering and physical science. This includes concepts such as software, data, users, access rights or interfaces. In software development industry and academia, ontologies are beings used in requirements engineering phase. A survey and classification of principles for domainspecific. Ontologies are used for formal representation of domain knowledge.
Owl web ontology language guide world wide web consortium. If you are using protege without any additional plugins, then the resulting ontology follows this specification. For instance, if an owldl ontology generated from an owlifier spreadsheet is refined and extended by a knowledgerepresentation expert, then converted back into an owlifier ontology that is further edited and extended by a scientist, and then converted again into an owldl ontology, we want to maintain i. Owl ontology consists of individuals, properties, and. Methodology for automatic ontology generation using. Ufo provides the necessary grounding for the concepts and relations of all networked ontologies.
Toward a software maintenance methodology using semantic web. Ontologydriven software development odsd advocates using ontologies for capturing knowledge about a software system at development time. We discuss these issues in detail and recommend ways to address them in the rest of this section. As a result, methodologies to automatically generate an ontology from metadata that characterize the domain knowledge are becoming important. The names of the concepts used in private ontologies of the agents are unknown, but their definitions use terms from the. These mechanisms are performed by software tools called reasoners.
It builds on the information in chapter 1, and it assumes that you are familiar with the major concepts associated with owl, such as ontologies, properties, and relationships. Odps can capture foundational and core domain concepts to provide reusable solutions for solving design problems for the domain. Ontologies in the software engineering process wolfgang hesse using ontologies in software engineering and technology francisco ruiz, jose r. Pdf reengineering ontosem ontology towards owl dl compliance. The example of ontology model development for telecom operator billing system based on descriptive logic is shown.
This chapter describes concepts related to the support for a subset of the web ontology language owl. W3c liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Specifically, showed how the use of an owldl ontology of software engineering concepts, rdf encoding of system metadata and sparql queries over the resulting graph may be used to enable languageneutral relational navigation of software systems thus facilitating software understanding and maintenance. Purpose of using ontologies in software engineering people. Ontologies, owl, semantic web, meta programming,dynamic compilation 1 background and motivation. Ontology driven software development odsd advocates using ontologies for capturing knowledge about a software system at development time. Design patterns have become an accepted practice in software engineering gamma et al. Ontology about resilient and dependable systems including threats, failures, faults and errors as used in the resist project. Introduction the success of the semantic web 1 depends heavily.
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