Ontological modeling for software application development

  • Authors:
  • Liwu Li

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., Canada N9B 3P4

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The analysis of application for software development is usually guided and, hence, constrained by concepts and constructs of structured and object-oriented programming languages. It produces an analysis model that bears no essential difference from a software design. Here, we introduce an ontological Weltanschauung in application analysis for understanding essentials and novelties, which are obscured in structured and object-oriented methods of application analysis. The ontological viewpoint is reified with a systemic framework, or simply an ontology, which can be related to software design. Thus, we can apply ontological analysis in software development.