A Comparative Study of Approaches of Ontology Driven Software Development

Haav, Hele-Mai

doi:10.15388/Informatica.2018.175

Informatica

A Comparative Study of Approaches of Ontology Driven Software Development

Volume 29, Issue 3 (2018), pp. 439–466

Hele-Mai Haav

https://doi.org/10.15388/Informatica.2018.175

Pub. online: 1 January 2018 Type: Research Article

Open Access

Received
1 October 2017

Accepted
1 May 2018

Published
1 January 2018

Abstract

Ontology Driven Software Development (ODSD) combines traditional Model Based Software Development (MBSD) techniques with ontology technology in order to provide extensions to and advantages over MBSD. The goal of the paper is to identify current ODSD approaches and to provide qualitative and comparative analysis of the collection of identified approaches. Main research questions of the paper concern the ways of how ontologies are integrated to MBSD process and how their usage advances MBSD. Benefits and challenges of each of the discussed approaches are presented. The analysis is based on literature and projects reviews in the fields of ontology engineering, MBSD and ODSD. The result of the analysis provides understanding of what is the role of ontologies in ODSD and shows whether application of ontology technologies to the MBSD process gives rise to a new paradigm called consistency preserving software development or not.

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Haav Hele-Mai

helemai@cs.ioc.ee

H.-M. Haav is a senior researcher at the Department of Software Science of Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia. Her current research is focused on ontology engineering and ontology integration to model-based software development.

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