Community-oriented software engineering ontology evolution

Wongthongtham, Pornpit; Kasisopha, Natsuda; Komchaliaw, S.

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Wongthongtham, Pornpit

Kasisopha, Natsuda

Komchaliaw, S.

Date

2009

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Conference Paper

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Wongthongtham, Pornpit and Kasisopha, Natsuda and Komchaliaw, S. 2009. Community-oriented software engineering ontology evolution, in Williams, G. and Tutanescu, I. (ed), 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST 2009), Nov 9 2009, pp. 259-262.London, UK: IEEE.

Source Title

Proceedings of the 4th international conference for internet technology and secured transactions (ICITST 2009)

Source Conference

4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST 2009)

ISBN

0954662822

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Curtin Business School

The Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)

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Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4287

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Software Engineering Ontology (SE Ontology) defines common shareable software engineering knowledge and typically provides software engineering concepts: what the concepts are, how they are related, and why they are related. These concepts facilitate common understanding of software engineering knowledge across multiple international software development sites. The SE Ontology is in machine understandable form to facilitate meaningful communication for remote social members. These social members use the SE Ontology but are not involved in the development process. Most existing ontologies including the SE Ontology are designed by individuals or small group of experts, not actual ontology users nor various groups of experts. It is effective if the ontology users can contribute in the process of creating and maintaining the ontologies they use. Social networking is becoming more prevalent enabling people to engage in remote collaboration to form goal-directed social networks. In this paper, we propose a social network based approach for ontology evolution for the SE Ontology. We analyze ontology evolution of the SE Ontology and propose the social network based approach for making ontology evolution more responsive to users? needs.