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A Comprehensive Ontology-Driven Software Development Architecture: An Approach to Developing Romantic Software Products

A Comprehensive Ontology-Driven Software Development Architecture: An Approach to Developing Romantic Software Products
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Author(s): Nehemiah Mavetera (North West University, South Africa)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 3
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch393
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

Information systems have been criticized for their lack of flexibility and content richness. The problem has been traced back to the developmental stages of these systems. Current ISD approaches are mechanistic, that is, they lack a way of capturing the humanistic element that is inherent in a socio-technical environment such as information systems. To address this anomaly, ontologies can be introduced at the developmental stages to capture the romanticism inherent in these systems, to mediate during the design and development of the software products for these systems and to facilitate easy sharing of information among different information systems. This paper discusses an architecture that positions ontologies at the center of a software development case tool. The ontology drives and coordinates, the requirements analysis, design, and coding of software products that are domain specific. Case based reasoning tools, Bayesian Networks, WordNet, domain specific ontology, conceptual graphs and formal logic are the tools that are incorporated into this software development architecture.

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