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Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development
August 2009 (vol. 21 no. 8)
pp. 1205-1217
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Pornpit Wongthongtham, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon, Ian Sommerville, "Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1205-1217, August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TKDE.2008.209,
author = {Pornpit Wongthongtham and Elizabeth Chang and Tharam Dillon and Ian Sommerville},
title = {Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
volume = {21},
number = {8},
issn = {1041-4347},
year = {2009},
pages = {1205-1217},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2008.209},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Pornpit Wongthongtham, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Ian Sommerville, St Andrews University, Scotland
This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described in the textbook entitled Software Engineering by Sommerville that is now in its eighth edition [1] and the white paper, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), by the IEEE [2] upon which software engineering ontology is based. This paper gives an analysis of what software engineering ontology is, what it consists of, and what it is used for in the form of usage example scenarios. The usage scenarios presented in this paper highlight the characteristics of the software engineering ontology. The software engineering ontology assists in defining information for the exchange of semantic project information and is used as a communication framework. Its users are software engineers sharing domain knowledge as well as instance knowledge of software engineering.

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Index Terms:
Software engineering, ontology development, multisite software development.
Citation:
Pornpit Wongthongtham, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon, Ian Sommerville, "Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1205-1217, Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2008.209
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