Ontological analysis for generating baseline architectural descriptions

  • Authors:

  • Arvind W. Kiwelekar;Rushikesh K. Joshi

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mapping elements from an application domain to architectural abstractions is a significant architecture description activity from the point of view of seamlessness in descriptions. For establishing such a mapping of domain elements to architectural abstractions, an approach based on ontological analysis is presented. The central idea of the approach is to establish the mapping through a uniform framework of understanding that is applicable over the problem domain as well as the solution domain. The reference ontology used is an adaptation of Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) ontology. Typically, an element from an application domain is mapped with an architectural abstraction when both represent the same phenomena from BWW ontology. The approach is realized as a model-driven transformation process.