System Ontology and its role in Software Development

The research reported upon in this paper aims at reducing errors in both the requirements engineering and the system specification phase of software development, by means of system ontology. The notion of system ontology is introduced and discussed. A particular generic ontology is presented as well as an accompanying diagramming technique. The application of system ontology in software development is demonstrated and discussed, using the design of a traffic control system as an example.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Jan L. G. Dietz
• Keywords: CAISE 2005, Ontology, Particular Generic Ontology, Software Development