KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR SOFTWARE PROCESSES

Michal Košinár, Svatopluk Štolfa, Jan Kožusznik

2010

Abstract

Documented software processes and their assessments are the basics of modern software development. Nowadays, the semantic web, knowledge bases and knowledge management support many applications, but still their application within software processes (and business processes generally) are surprisingly being ignored. In this paper we focus on applying a knowledge layer into software processes and on the design of such a knowledge base. After a brief description of some classical fundamental approaches to software processes and knowledge bases, we propose an improvement based on the application of a machine readable knowledge base. We focus, in particular, on optimizing and enhancing software processes and their assessments with the knowledge layer.

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Košinár M., Štolfa S. and Kožusznik J. (2010). KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR SOFTWARE PROCESSES . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 105-111. DOI: 10.5220/0002999801050111


in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase10,
author={Michal Košinár and Svatopluk Štolfa and Jan Kožusznik},
title={KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR SOFTWARE PROCESSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={105-111},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002999801050111},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR SOFTWARE PROCESSES
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Košinár M.
AU - Štolfa S.
AU - Kožusznik J.
PY - 2010
SP - 105
EP - 111
DO - 10.5220/0002999801050111