Semantic integration of software and systems engineering environments

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-50

  Moser, Thomas ^a   Biffl, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; ontologies; ontology alignment (OA); semantic integration (SI); software and systems engineering; software development environments

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED APPLICATIONS; DATA INTEGRATION; END-TO-END ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING CONCEPTS; ENGINEERING DOMAINS; ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT; ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE; ENGINEERING MODELS; ENGINEERING PROCESS; ENGINEERING PROJECT; EVALUATION RESULTS; FLEXIBLE SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT (OA); RESEARCH RESULTS; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION (SI); SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84655167861     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2136377     Document Type: Article

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