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Ontologies and Software Engineering

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The chapter analyzes the state of the art in the use of ontologies for various software engineering tasks. The chapter starts from defining software engineering as an application context for ontologies. Next, it introduces a framework that identifies places in software lifecycle where ontologies can contribute to improvethe current state of software engineering.

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    Today’s methodologies follow incremental and iterative software development.

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    http://www.spinroot.com/spin/Doc/course/Standish_Survey.htm

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    http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/java_annotations_the_semantic_web

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  1. Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

    Dragan Gašević

  2. University of British Columbia, Columbia, Canada

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  3. University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Milan Milanović

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Gašević, D., Kaviani, N., Milanović, M. (2009). Ontologies and Software Engineering. In: Staab, S., Studer, R. (eds) Handbook on Ontologies. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_27

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