WEON: towards a software ecosystem ONtology

  • Authors:
  • Claudio Gutierrez;Romain Robbes

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Chile, Chile;University of Chile, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The natural distributed character of software ecosystems calls for a shared conceptualization and language to describe their architecture and their evolution. In this regards, ontologies play a central role. In this paper: we argue in favor of such an approach by showing that there is succesful experience applying ontologies to the fields of software engineering and software architecture; show the issues arising in ecosystem evolution and the needs for higher levels of formalization of the description of such processes; finally, we present a roadmap to develop an ontology for this area.