A systematic review of research on integration of ontologies with the model-driven approach

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-150

  Valiente, María Cruz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

MDA; MDE; Model driven architecture; Model driven engineering; Model driven software development; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPLEX PROCESSES; MODEL DRIVEN APPROACH; MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; MODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77952589245     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2010.033283     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Acuña, C.J. and Marcos, E. (2006) 'Modelling semantic web services: a case study', International Conference on Web Engineering. International Conference on Web Engineering Vol.263, Palo Alto, California, USA, SESSION: Session 2: web services I, pp.32-39, ISBN: 1-59593-352-2.
2. Amar Bensaber, D. and Malki, M. (2008) 'Development of semantic web services: model driven approach', International Conference on New Technologies in Distributed Systems, SESSION: Modelling, Lyon, France, No.2, p.40, ISBN: 978-1-59593-937-1.
3. Assmann, U., Zschaler, S. and Wagner, G. (2006) 'Ontologies, metamodels, and the model-driven paradigm', in Calero, C., Ruiz, F. and Piattini, M. (Eds.): Ontologies for Software Engineering and Technology, Springer-Verlag, pp.249-274.
4. Bechhofer, S., van Harmelen, F., Hendler, J., Horrocks, I., McGuinness, D.L., Patel-Schneider, P.F. and Stein, L.A. (2004) OWL Web Ontology Language Reference, W3C Recommendation, 10 February, W3C, Available from http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/, Last visited: July 2009.
5. Berztiss, A.T. (1999) 'Domain analysis for business software systems', Information Systems, Vol.24, No.7, pp.555-568.
6. Billig, A., Busse, S., Leicher, A. and Guy Süß, J. (2004) 'Platform independent model transformation based on TRIPLE', International Conference on Middleware. Middleware Conference, Vol.78, Toronto, Canada, SESSION: Application servers, enterprise computing, and software engineering, pp.493-511, ISBN: 3-540-23428-4.
7. Brambilla, M., Ceri, S., Facca, F.M., Celino, I., Cerizza, D. and Della Valle Cefriel, E. (2007) 'Model-driven design and development of semantic web service applications', ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol.8, No.1, p.3, ISSN: 1533-5399.
8. Bunge, M.A. (1977) Treatise on Basic Philosophy Vol. 3: Ontology I - The Furniture of the World, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
9. Bunge, M.A. (1979) Treatise on Basic Philosophy Vol. 4: Ontology II - A World of Systems, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
10. Chan, C.W. (2004) 'Knowledge and software modelling using UML', Software and Systems Modelling, Vol.3, No.4, pp.294-302.
11. Crichton, C., Davies, J., Gibbons, J., Harris, S. and Shukla, A. (2007) 'Semantic Frameworks for e-Government', International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Workshop Session: Formal Engineering Methods for Electronic Governance, Macao, China, Vol.232, pp.30-39, ISBN: 978-1-59593-822-0.
12. Durak, U., Oguztuzun, H. and Ider, S.K. (2006) 'An ontology for trajectory simulation', Conference on Winter Simulation, Monterey, California, SESSION: Modelling Methodology b: Ontology Driven Simulation, pp.1160-1167, ISBN: 1-4244- 0501-7.
13. Evermann, J. (2009) 'A UML and OWL description of Bunge's upper-level ontology model', Software and Systems Modelling, Vol.8, No.2, pp.235-249.
14. Evidence-Based Software Engineering (EBSE) (2009) Template for a Systematic Literature Review Protocol, Available from http://www.dur.ac.uk/ebse/ resources/templates/SLRTemplate. pdf, Last visited: July.
15. Fluegge, M., Garcia dos Santos, I.J., Pavia Tizzo, N. and Madeira, E.R.M. (2006) 'Challenges and techniques on the road to dynamically compose web services', International Conference on Web engineering. International Conference on Web Engineering, Vol.263, Palo Alto, California, USA, SESSION: Session 2: web services I, pp.32-39, ISBN: 1-59593-352-2.
16. France, R. and Rumpe, B. (2007) 'Model-driven development of complex software: a research roadmap', IEEE Computer Society, May 2007, Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FOSE.2007.14, Washington, DC, USA, pp.37-54, ISBN: 0-7695-2829-5.
17. García, F., Piattini, M., Ruiz, F., Canfora, G. and Visaggio, C.A. (2004) 'FMESP: framework for the modelling and evaluation of software processes', Workshop on Quantitative Techniques for Software Agile Process, Foundations of Software Engineering, Newport Beach, California, pp.5-13.
18. García, F., Ruiz, F., Calero, C., Bertoa, M.F., Vallecillo, A., Mora, B. and Piattini M. (2009) 'Effective use of ontologies in software measurement', The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol.24, pp.23-40, doi:10.1017/S0269888909000 125.
19. García, F., Serrano, M., Cruz-Lemus, J., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M. and ALARCOS Research Group (2007) 'Managing software process measurement: a metamodel-based approach', Information Sciences, Vol.177, No.12, pp.2570-2586.
20. Garrido, J.L., Noguera, M., González, M., Hurtado, M.V. and Rodríguez, M.L. (2007) 'Definition and use of computation independent models in an MDA-based groupware development process', Science of Computer Programming, Vol.66, No.1, pp.25-43.
21. Goknil, A. and Topaloglu, Y. (2005) 'Ontological perspective in metamodelling for model transformations', Metainformatics, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Esbjerg, Denmark, Vol.214, No.7, ISBN: 978-1-59593-719-3.
22. Gruber, T.R. (1993) 'A translation approach to portable ontology specifications', Knowledge Adquisition, Vol.5, No.2, pp.199-220.
23. Guarino, N. (1998) 'Formal ontology and information systems', Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS'98), 6-8 June, IOS Press, Trento, Italy, Amsterdam, pp.3-15.
24. Jensen, K. (1996) Coloured Petri Nets. Basic Concepts, Analysis Methods and Practical Use, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, Vol.1.
25. Joukhadar, A. and Al-Maghout, H. (2008) 'Improving agility in business applications using ontology based multilingual understanding of natural business rules', International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, ICTTA 2008, pp.1-8, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICTTA. 2008, 4530336.
26. Kent, S. (2002) 'Model driven engineering', International Formal Methods, Vol.2335 of LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pp.286-298.
27. Kitchenham, B. and Charters, S. (2007) Guidelines for Performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering, Keele University, EBSE Technical Report: EBSE-2007-01
28. Kramler, G., Kappel, G., Reiter, T., Kapsammer, E., Retschitzegger, W. and Schwinger, W. (2006) 'Towards a semantic infrastructure supporting model-based tool integration', International Workshop on Global Integrated Model Management. International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, SESSION: Megamodelling and interoperability, pp.21-28, ISBN: 1-59593-410-3.
29. Kurtev, I., Bézivin, J., Jouault, F. and Valduriez, P. (2006) 'Model-based DSL frameworks', Dynamic Languages Symposium' Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, SESSION: OOPSLA onward! track chair's welcome, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp.602-616, ISBN: 1-59593-491-X.
30. Neches, R., Fikes, R., Finin, T., Gruber, T., Patil, R., Senator, T. and Swartout, W.R. (1991) 'Enabling technology for knowledge sharing', AI Magazine, Vol.12, No.3, pp.36-56.
31. Noguera, M., Hurtado, M.V., Rodríguez, M.L., Chung, L. and Garrido, J.L. (2009) 'Ontology-driven analysis of UML-based collaborative processes using OWL-DL and CPN', Science of Computer Programming, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 May 2009.
32. Object Management Group (OMG) (2001) Model Driven Architecture, Document ormsc/2001-07-101, Available from http://www.omg.org/, July, Last visited: July 2009.
33. Object Management Group (OMG) (2003) Model Driven Architecture: MDA Guide, Version 1.0.1, Document omg/2003-06-101, Available from http://www.omg.org/, June, Last visited: July 2009.
34. Object Management Group (OMG) (2006) Meta Object Facility (MOF) 2.0 Core Specification, Version 2.0, Document formal/06-01-01, January, Available from http://www. omg.org/docs/formal/06-01-01.pdf, Last visited: July 2009.
35. Object Management Group (OMG) (2007) MOF 2.0/XMI Mapping, Version 2.1.1, Document formal/2007-12-101, December, Available from http://www.omg.org/docs/ formal/ 07-12-01.pdf. Last visited: July 2009.
36. Object Management Group (OMG) (2008a) Business Process Modelling Notation, Version 1.1, OMG Available Specification, Document formal/2008-01-17, Available from http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/1.1/PDF, Last visited: July 2009.
37. Object Management Group (OMG) (2008b) Meta Object Facility (MOF) 2.0 Query/View/Transformation Specification, Version 1.0, Document ptc/08-04-103, Available from http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/08-04-03.pdf, Last visited: July 2009.
38. Object Management Group (OMG) (2009a) Unified Modelling Language: Superstructure, Version 2.2, Document formal/2009-02-02, February, Available from http://www. omg.org/docs/formal/09-02-02.pdf, Last visited: July.
39. Object Management Group (OMG) (2009b) Ontology Definition Metamodel, Version 1.0, Document formal/2009-05-101, May 2009, Available from http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/ 09-05-01.pdf, Last visited: July 2009.
40. Okouya, D., Penserini, L., Saudrais, S., Staikopoulos, A., Dignum, V. and Clarke, S. (2008) 'Designing MAS organisation through an integrated MDA/ontology approach', Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2008) at MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, Vol.395 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp.55-60, CEUR-WS.org.
41. Pahl, C. (2007) 'Semantic model-driven architecting of servicebased software systems', Information and Software Technology, Vol.49, No.8, pp.838-850.
42. Parrend, P. and David, B. (2005) 'Use of ontologies as a way to automate MDE processes', International Conference on Computer as a Tool, EUROCON 2005, Vol.1, pp.567-570, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/EURCON.2005.1629992.
43. Reinhartz-Berger, I. and Sturm, A. (2009) 'Utilizing domain models for application design and validation', Information and Software Technology, Vol.51, No.8, pp.1275-1289.
44. Roser, S. and Bauer, B. (2006) 'An approach to automatically generated model transformation using ontology engineering space', Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering, pp.154-167.
45. Silva Parreiras, F., Staab, S. and Winter, A. (2007) 'On marrying ontological and metamodelling technical spaces. Foundations of software engineering', Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: Companion Papers, SESSION: State-of-the-art presentations, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp.439-448, ISBN: 978-1-59593-812-1.
46. Tairas, R., Mernik, M. and Gray, J. (2008) 'Using ontologies in the domain analysis of domain-specific languages', Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2008) at MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, Vol.395 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp.20-31, CEUR-WS.org.
47. Tautz, C. and Von Wangenheim, C.G. (1998) REFSENO: A Representation Formalism for Software Engineering Ontologies, Version 1.1. 015.98/E, Fraunhofer IESE.
48. Terrasse, M.N., Savonnet, M., Leclercq, E., Grison, T. and Becker, G. (2006) 'Do we need metamodels and ontologies for engineering platforms?', International Workshop on Global Integrated Model Management, International Conference on Software Engineering, SESSION: Megamodelling and interoperability, Shanghai, China, pp.21-28, ISBN: 1-59593-410-3.
49. Decker, S., Sintek, M., Billig, A., Henze, N., Dolog, P., Nejdl, W., Harth, A., Leicher, A., Busse, S., Ambite, J.L., Weathers, M., Neumann, G. and Zdun, U. (2005) 'TRIPLE - an RDF rule language with context and use cases', W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, Washington, DC, USA, Available from http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rulesws/ paper/98/, Last visited: July 2009, pp.27-28, TRIPLE website: http://triple.semanticweb.org/
50. Van Hillegersberg, J. and Kumar, K. (1999) 'Using metamodelling to integrate object-oriented analysis, design and programming concepts', Information Systems, Vol.24, No.2, pp.113-129.
51. Vanacken, L., Raymaekers, C. and Coninx, K. (2007) 'Introducing semantic information during conceptual modelling of interaction for virtual environments', Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction, Nagoya, Japan, pp.17-24, ISBN: 978-1-59593-869-5.
52. Varró, D. and Balogh, A. (2007) 'The model transformation language of the VIATRA2 framework', Science of Computer Programming, Vol.68, No.3, pp.214-234.
53. Vasilecas, O. and Bugaite, D. (2007) 'An algorithm for the automatic transformation of ontology axioms into a rule model', International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol.285, Bulgaria, SESSION: Computer technologies, No.9, pp.1-6, ISBN: 978-954-9641-50-9.
54. Wand, Y. (1996) 'Ontology as a foundation for meta-modelling and method engineering', Information and Software Technology, Vol.38, No.4, pp.281-287.
55. Wei, L., Ke-Qing, H., Kui, Z. and Jian, W. (2008) 'Combining domain-driven approach with requirement assets for networked software requirements elicitation', IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp.354-361, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICSC.2008.14.
56. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2004a) OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services, W3C Member Submission, Available from http://www.w3.org/Submission/ OWL-S/, Last visited: July 2009.
57. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2004b) Resource Description Framework (RDF), Website: http://www. w3.org/RDF/, RDF Primer, W3C Recommendation, in Manola, F. and Miller, E. (Eds.): Available from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf- syntax/, Last visited: July 2009.
58. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2005) Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO), W3C Member Submission, in Lausen, H., Polleres, A. and Roman, D. (Eds.): Available from http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMO/, Last visited: July 2009.
59. Živkovic, S., Murzek, M. and Kühn, H. (2008) 'Bringing ontology awareness into model driven engineering platforms', Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2008) at MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, Vol. 395 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp.47-54, CEUR-WS.org.