Authors:
Bilal Gonen
1
;
Xingang Fang
1
;
Eman El-Sheikh
1
;
Sikha Bagui
1
;
Norman Wilde
1
;
Alfred Zimmermann
2
and
Ilia Petrov
2
Affiliations:
1
University of West Florida, United States
;
2
Reutlingen University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ontology, Knowledge Modelling, Semantic Browsing, Software Maintenance, Software Evolution.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Integration
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Many future Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems may be pervasive SmartLife applications that provide real-time support for users in everyday tasks and situations. Development of such applications will be challenging, but in this position paper we argue that their ongoing maintenance may be even more so. Ontological modelling of the application may help to ease this burden, but maintainers need to understand a system at many levels, from a broad architectural perspective down to the internals of deployed components. Thus we will need consistent models that span the range of views, from business processes through system architecture to maintainable code. We provide an initial example of such a modelling approach and illustrate its application in a semantic browser to aid in software maintenance tasks.