TOWARDS A COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ENGINEERING SECURE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

Widura Schwittek, Holger Schmidt, Stefan Eicker, Maritta Heisel

2011

Abstract

Interdisciplinary communities involve people and knowledge from different disciplines in addressing a common challenge. Differing perspectives, processes, methods, tools, vocabularies, and standards are problems that arise in this context. We present an approach to support bringing together disciplines based on a common body of knowledge (CBK), in which knowledge from different disciplines is collected, integrated, and structured. The novelty of our approach is twofold: first, it introduces a CBK ontology, which allows one to semantically enrich contents in order to be able to query the CBK in a more elaborate way afterwards. Second, it heavily relies on user participation in building up a CBK, making use of the Semantic MediaWiki as a platform to support collaborative writing. The CBK ontology is backed by a conceptual framework, consisting of concepts to structure the knowledge, to provide access options to it, and to build up a common terminology. To ensure a high quality of the provided contents and to sustain the community’s commitment, we further present organizational means as part of our approach. We demonstrate our work using the example of a Network of Excellence EU project, which aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from services computing, security and software engineering.

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in Harvard Style

Schwittek W., Schmidt H., Eicker S. and Heisel M. (2011). TOWARDS A COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ENGINEERING SECURE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-81-2, pages 369-374. DOI: 10.5220/0003666303690374


in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis11,
author={Widura Schwittek and Holger Schmidt and Stefan Eicker and Maritta Heisel},
title={TOWARDS A COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ENGINEERING SECURE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={369-374},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003666303690374},
isbn={978-989-8425-81-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)
TI - TOWARDS A COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ENGINEERING SECURE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
SN - 978-989-8425-81-2
AU - Schwittek W.
AU - Schmidt H.
AU - Eicker S.
AU - Heisel M.
PY - 2011
SP - 369
EP - 374
DO - 10.5220/0003666303690374