Abstract software architecture is an undeniable role in the software life cycle. An ontologydriven software architecture evaluation method aida erfanian electrical and computer engineering faculty shahid beheshti university evin, tehran, iran. Development method of mes software based on component and driven by ontology is feasible and efficient through developing a pharmaceutics mes which applied in a pharmaceutics manufacturing factory. The ontology based enterprise architecture is modeled in three levels as shown in fig. It will consist of generic transformation service, pluggable detection components and ui component. An ontologybased approach for software architecture. Soaroad has been designed as a methodology for the assessment of software architectures developed according to soa principles. Ontologydriven software development in the context of the. Assisting software architects in architectural decisionmaking using. Sensors free fulltext ontologybased architecture for. Pdf evaluating software architecture evaluation methods.
Validating a model driven software architecture evaluation and improvement method. An ontology based approach for software architecture recommendations full paper manoj bhat. Building the ontology we focused on the reauirements of architecture tradeoff analysis method atam which was chosen as reference methodology for architecture evaluation. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Mikicrakic m, malek s and medvidovic n architecturedriven software mobility in. Hwsw technologies, our method uses an ontologybased approach to handle these complexities. Software architecture evaluation involves evaluating. A scalable framework for data driven ontology evaluation daniel knoell1, martin atzmueller2, constantin rieder1, and klaus peter scherer1 1 karlsruhe institute of technology d76344, eggensteinleopoldshafen, germany.
Software architecture evaluation has a crucial role in the life cycle of software intensive systems. In this project, an ontology based framework for the mining of adl with a generic ontology and a modular architecture is proposed. However, current methods encounter performance bottlenecks either in storing data and searching for information when processing large amounts of data. It examines the software architecture, the selection methods, the decision path. The evaluation of the recommendation system indicates that our. Section 4 leads to the ontologydriven system framework including the overall group. Ontology of architectural decisions supporting atam based. Methods based on our earlier research with the design of a mobile cdss for emergency triage we used ontology driven design to represent essential components of a cdss. A scalable framework for datadriven ontology evaluation. Index terms software architecture, ontology, soa, atam, architecture assessment, architecture evaluation, enterprise architecture i. But the approach lacked implemented architecture, thus difficult for enterprises to use in practice. Designing and enacting crossorganisational business processes.
Architecture evaluation methods have been proposed, formalized, and. In this paper, we propose a domain ontology building process based on the neo4j graphics database and a retrieval method based on a twotier index architecture. The purpose of this standard is to contribute to the open group mission of boundaryless information flow, by developing and fostering common understanding of serviceoriented architecture soa in order to improve alignment between the business and information technology communities, and facilitate soa adoption. Ontology engineering aims to make explicit the knowledge contained in software applications, and organizational procedures for a particular domain.
Software architecture is a means to manage risk and costs in complex it projects. Pedagogicallydriven ontology network for conceptualizing. Validating a modeldriven software architecture evaluation. Particular interest is given to datadriven ontology evaluation with special emphasis on the notion of bias and its relevance to evaluation results. To overcome these challenges, we propose a domain ontology process based on the neo4j graph database. In 17 an ontologybased method for software architecture documentation is proposed which is a design rationale with the goals of reusability and evaluation of software architecture. An ontologydriven software architecture evaluation method. March 26, 2011 april 6, 2011 by tolosa, posted in enterprise architecture ontology, enterprise ontology, evidence ontology, ontology, owl, rdf, semantic role of an enterprise ontology for an overview of this concept i am going to reference an article written by dave mccomb called the enterprise ontology. Evaluating software architectures guide books acm digital library. The comparison between software design and civil architecture was first drawn in the late 1960s, but the term software architecture became prevalent only in the beginning of the 1990s. It functions as a blueprint for the system and the. Pedagogicallydriven ontology network for conceptualizing the. What we learned from using ontologies as infrastructure for software. The goal of this project is to design and implement decoupled software architecture for ontology transformation based on patterns and matching.
Tian 5 presents in his work an ontology driven multiagent architecture with the goal of supporting the sharing and reuse among different types of knowledge acquisition agents. Using ontologydriven methods to develop frameworks for. In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that substantiate one, many or all domains of discourse. An ontology driven approach to software project enactment. Index termssoftware architecture, ontology, soa, atam, architecture assessment. So far, very few purely patternbased methodologies have been proposed. Clinical decision support system for point of care use. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the. Software architecture refers to the fundamental structures of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. An ontologybased enterprise architecture sciencedirect.
The enterprise architecture ontology is composed of ontologies in three levels. Knowledge based qualitydriven architecture design and evaluation. Moreover, we discuss how roost was evaluated following four complementary approaches. Ingolf kruger, in economicsdriven software architecture, 2014. Feb 05, 2009 we demonstrate that we enable ontology based querying and integration of tissue and gene expression microarray data. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology.
The semantic web layer makes ontologies and interfaces available to the public, whereas the internal layer consists of the control and reasoning mechanisms. Finally, the ontology application of this system is illustrated with specific real case to demonstrate its potentials towards decisionmaking development. As quality attributes are considered major drivers of the design process to achieve high quality systems, the design decisions that drive the selection and use of specific quality properties and vice versa. Using ontology driven methods to develop frameworks for tackling nlp problems taisiya kostareva, svetlana chuprina, alexander nam perm state university, 15 bukireva st. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations.
The analysis of existing approaches to ontology development for software platform realization in some subject domains is depicted. Ontology driven conceptual modeling odcm is still a relatively new research domain in the field of information systems and there is still much discussion on how the research in odcm should be performed and what the focus of this research should be. In this paper an ontology driven architecture to improve the driving environment through a traffic sensor network is proposed. Provide a method for evaluation of software architecture. The lack of integrated methods to support the derivation, evaluation, and quality improvement of software architectures motivated us, in a previous work, to propose the quality driven architecture derivation and improvement quadai, a model driven approach with which to derive, evaluate and eventually transform software architectures in an. To remedy such problems, the ontology driven architecture oda approach can support the development and administration of software components in an application server. Computers and internet educational assessment methods educational evaluation online education management ontology. An ontologydriven framework for developing jade agent.
Chief among the outputs of this survey is the gap analysis on the topic of ontology evaluation. A conceptual ontologybased resource metamodel towards. Quality evaluation framework for bioontologies jesualdo tomas fernandezbreis, mikel egana aranguren, robert stevens nature precedings, 2009. Our approach provides the basis for ontology driven data integration for translational research on gene and protein expression data. The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the semantic web. In this paper, a formal ontology based and model driven approach is presented for developing service system applications. Ontologydriven software development ebook by 9783642312267. Pedagogically driven ontology network for conceptualizing the elearning assessment domain. Architecting process an overview sciencedirect topics.
Index termssoftware architecture, ontology, soa, atam, architecture assessment, architecture evaluation, enterprise architecture i. In proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on sharing and reusing architectural knowledge, shark 08. Index termsmes, component, ontology, architecture, retrieval i. Provide a method for evaluation of software architecture using ontology mohammad nabi omidvar islamic azad university,firouzabad branch, department of computer, fars, iran reza vaziri islamic azad university, meymand branch, department of computer, fars, iran abstract software architecture is an undeniable role in the software life cycle. International journal of computer applications 6416. Approaches, methods, metrics, measures, and subjectivity in. A survey needs to be done with respect to ontology evaluation section 6. The integration of oilfield multidisciplinary ontology is increasingly important for the growth of the semantic web. The evaluation of a representation of knowledge there are inherent problems in trying to evaluate an ontology as it is not clear what exactly one is trying to evaluate. An ontologydriven framework for supporting complex. Ontology evaluation denny vrandecic handbook on ontologies, 2009. D archvoctowards an ontology for software architecture proceedings of the. We argue that one key foundation for both ontology evaluation and harmonisation is the adoption of a realist paradigm in ontology development. Data driven ontology evaluation christopher brewster.
Mda ontology driven information system ontology not just small component in large system. Current ontology acquisition methods are summarized. Modeldriven software architecture is another domain in which some. A corpus is the most accessible form of knowledge and its use allows a measure to be derived of the fit between an ontology and a. In section 2, we present the main concepts related to software testing. Towards an ontology approach to atam based assessment of. In this work we present a spem transformation to the semantic web technical space and consequently we propose its utilization that is an ontology based approach to software project enactment with a supplier. Moreover, we briefly present the testing ontologies. Cbm ontology for the improvement of traceability, reusability and consistency evaluation cbmof trace is suggested to address the deficiencies of component business model cbm which is tried to be alleviated by a method proposed by ibm called actionable business architecture aba. The goal of the workshop was to provide an introduction to the basic tools and methods of ontology.
Ontologies of business terms are in the first level, ontologies of enterprise architecture components are in the second level. An extension to the datadriven ontology evaluation. The main goal of the ontology is to provide constructs for documenting serviceoriented architectures, however, it is designed to support future reasoning. The evaluation method and experiment are introduced in section 5. Approaches, methods, metrics, measures, and subjectivity. We enable identification of datasets on specific diseases across both repositories. Our approach is highly focused on the effective reusability of software architecture knowledge. Evaluating software architectures introduces the conceptual background for architecture evaluation and provides a stepbystep guide to the process based on numerous evaluations performed in government and industry. Jung, 09 proposed a novel framework based on aligning business ontology for integrating heterogeneous business. Ontology summit 2007 nist, gaithersburg, md, april 2324, 2007overlapping domain so first one 4 to provide mechanisms that enable ontology evaluation on ontology evaluation ons use nlp evaluation methods, but address only nlp see slide at end with notes. Ontology engineering offers a direction for overcoming semantic obstacles, such as those related to the definitions of business terms and software classes. Ontologydriven indexing of public datasets for translational. An ontologydriven framework for deploying jade agent systems.
Reconciling the expectations of ontology engineering to the. In this context, ontologies through technologies offered by ontology engineering, extend the possibilities of a typical mbsd model based software development approach9. Pdf an ontologydriven software architecture evaluation method. The relationship between business process management ontology and process templates. Relevant topics include ai approaches to software engineering, automated. Computers and internet educational assessment methods educational evaluation online education management ontology educational aspects. More simply, an ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of concepts and. A modeldriven ontology approach for developing service. Jan 21, 2014 what are ontologydriven information systems. It examines the software architecture, the selection methods, the decision path, etc. The paper hence proposes a multidimensional view to data driven ontology evaluation that accounts for bias in the valuation of ontologies. Neo4j graph database realizes efficient storage performance. The architecture of a software system is a metaphor, analogous to the architecture of a building. Quality attributes use in architecture design decision.
Models of clinical decision problems were derived from the ontology and they were processed into. An ontologydriven software architecture evaluation method aida erfanian electrical and computer engineering faculty shahid beheshti university evin, tehran, iran a. We call this general design and architecture ontologydriven applications. Section 4 discusses in detail the proposed engineering ontology development methodology and the acquired eo. It demonstrates how to apply ontology reasoning in the lifecycle of software development, using current and emerging standards and technologies. An ontology driven software architecture evaluation method. The oda approach is supplementary to mda, where models abstract from lowlevel and often platformspecific implementation details. To facilitate the exchange of information between the different applications that use sensor data, a common framework of knowledge is needed to allow interoperability. Mes development based on component and driven by ontology are investigated in detail. Brewster 9, for example, describes two basic and a more sophisticated comparison method. It closely cooperates with the mda model driven architecture 10, which lists cim. It is based on the architecture tradeoff analysis method atam 18, 7, which is a mature, scenariobased, early method for architecture assessment.
Quality aware software architecting extends model and quality driven architecture design and evaluation with the means of a knowledge engineering discipline in order to increase the use of existing design knowledge in the development of complex software intensive systems. Ontology driven architectures and potential uses of the semantic. We propose in this paper that one approach to ontology evaluation should be corpus or data driven. In ontology engineering, patternbased methods are present primarily on the logical level, where patterns support methods for ontology learning, enrichment and similar tasks like in 2.
This paper aims to survey the new methodology and tools for userdefined applications development, based on serviceoriented computing soc and model driven approach mda, when all computing units, both hardware and software, can be treated as services and domain ontology acts as a metamodel basis to generate a conceptual model for specific information systems. Introduction nowadays, service oriented architecture soa might be treated as a state of the art approach to the design and implementation of enterprise software, which is driven. A scalable framework for data driven ontology evaluation. An ontologybased approach for sa recommendations twentythird americas conference on information systems, boston, 2017 1 an ontologybased approach for software architecture recommendations full paper manoj bhat technische universitat munchen manoj. This note attempts to outline how semantic web technologies can be applied in systems and software engineering, as well as the benefits such applications could bring. Designing and enacting crossorganisational business. Software architecture is an undeniable role in the software life cycle. A method for ontologybased architecture reconstruction of. Model driven software development mdsd provides techniques to realize and. This is contrary to the underlying assumptions of current research in data driven ontology evaluation. In this paper we focus on the third stage of architecture evaluation. Ontologydriven, not just ontologyinspired or just used in software engineering process e. This paper describes dwarm, an ontology formalizing a new data warehouse architecture reference model intended do capture common five architectural approaches, as well as to provide means for describing complex hybrid architectures that emerge due. Ontology driven software development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking and process guidance for ontology driven software development odsd.
Some criteria should be noted at the time of analysis and evaluation of software architecture including quality characteristics, risks and nonrisks, architectural decisions or tactics. Ontology driven indexing of public datasets for translational bioinformatics nigam h shah, 1 clement jonquet, 1 annie p chiang, 1 atul j butte, 1 rong chen, 1 and mark a musen 1 1 centre for biomedical informatics, school of medicine, stanford university, stanford, ca 94305, usa. Research on development method of mes based on component and. Adaptive ontologies set the structural basis for all subsequent data display, analysis, inferencing, entailments, and the like. To address this concern, we presented a family of four controlled experiments that compares a recently proposed method, the qualitydriven architecture. This research deemed domain knowledge on which data driven ontology evaluation is based to be dynamic. Provide a method for evaluation of software architecture using ontology. We then, in section 3, propose some ideas based on oda and, more generally, on how semantic web technologies can be applied in systems and software engineering. In order to solve this problem, the ontologybased enterprise architecture is suggested in this paper. The example of ontology model development for telecom operator billing system based on descriptive logic is shown. Hlomani, and deborah stacey approaches, methods, metrics, measures, and subjectivity in ontology evaluation. We call them adaptive because they embrace a set of unique best practices. Applying evolutionary terminology auditing to the gene ontology.
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