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Ontologies, Meta-models, and the Model-Driven Paradigm

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Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology

9.6 Conclusions

Ontologies are no silver bullet. They can be employed in the software process as descriptive standardized domain models, domain-specific languages, and modelling (description) languages. However, they should not be mingled with specifications of software systems. In MDE, both forms of models are needed and complement each other. It is time to develop appropriate mega-models that clarify the role of ontologies in MDE. This chapter has presented one approach; however, this can be only an intermediate step, because we restricted ourselves to the standard IRDS metapyramid. Other, more sophisticated meta-pyramids exist and must be extended to be ontology-aware.

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  2. Institute of Informatics, Lehrstuhl Internet-Technologie, Brandenburgisch-Technische Universität Cottbus, Postfach 101344, 03013, Cottbus

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Aßmann, U., Zschaler, S., Wagner, G. (2006). Ontologies, Meta-models, and the Model-Driven Paradigm. In: Calero, C., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M. (eds) Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34518-3_9

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