Authors:
Thiago Medeiros dos Santos
1
;
Rodrigo Bonacin
1
;
M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas
2
and
Marcos Antônio Rodrigues
3
Affiliations:
1
CESET, Unicamp; CenPRA, MCT, Brazil
;
2
Institute of Computing, Unicamp, Brazil
;
3
CenPRA, MCT, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Organizational Semiotics, Model Driven Architecture, Model Driven Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Semiotics
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Literature in Information Systems presents a set of approaches to analyzing and modeling the organizational context in order to improve the quality of the computational systems. The research community also looks for alternatives for aligning these approaches with Software Engineering techniques, which support the large scale and low cost software production and maintenance. In this work is proposed an approach and a tool to support the construction of computational models taken from the organizational models. This approach is based on concepts, methods and techniques from MDA (Model Driven Architecture), and from Organizational Semiotics, more specifically the MEASUR (Methods for Eliciting, Analyzing and Specifying User’s Requirements). A MDA tool was constructed in order to realize the approach. The first version of this tool provides means to model Ontology Charts. By using semi-automated transformations, it is also possible to produce UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagrams
from the modeled Ontology Charts. The tool features, design solutions, and capabilities are explained.
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