2007 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Towards a Multiple Ontology Framework for Requirements Elicitation and Reuse
Beijing, China
July 24-July 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2870-8
LI Zong-yong, Institute of Command Automation, PLA Univ., China
WANG Zhi-xue, Institute of Command Automation, PLA Univ., China
WU Yue, Institute of Command Automation, PLA Univ., China
LIU Ying, Engineering Institute of Corps of Engineers, PLA Univ., China
In order to elicit system requirements correctly and unambiguously, researchers in the requirements engineering community have been studying and developing a number of ontology based approaches. Many of them adopt the single ontology schema, which utilizes a global ontology to describe static knowledge for all domains. However, such ontologies lack dynamic conceptual description and they are difficult to reuse. Based on KADS knowledge modeling, this paper proposes a multiple ontology framework for requirements elicitation and reuse. Besides encapsulating the ontology of domain knowledge, it also includes the top level ontology, task ontology and application ontology. The framework provides a more powerful knowledge base for requirements elicitation and definitely defines the responsibilities of all stakeholders. The process of using the framework is discussed at last.
Citation:
LI Zong-yong, WANG Zhi-xue, YANG Ying-ying, WU Yue, LIU Ying, "Towards a Multiple Ontology Framework for Requirements Elicitation and Reuse," compsac, vol. 1, pp.189-195, 2007 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2007