1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Enterprise Modeling Based on Ontologies and Meta-Level Strategies

Research Project

Project/Area Number	07680458
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	社会システム工学
Research Institution	Shizuoka University
Principal Investigator	YAMAGUCHI Takahira School of Information, Shizuoka University Associate Professor, 情報学部, 助教授 (20174617)
Project Period (FY)	1995 – 1996
Keywords	Ontologies / Software Engineering Processes / Enterprise Models / Prolog
Research Abstract	This project presents the enterprise modeling environment for software houses, based on ontologies and meta-level strategies, focusing on building up software engineering processes. The environment presents a methodology to manually construct the following ontologies : an object ontology based on constituent elements for objects and a process ontology based on the relationships between inputs and outputs. Using such constructed ontologies, the environment tries to build up software engineering process plans good for user queries, with both user interaction and constraints satisfaction. The environment has been implemented by Prolog. Furthermore, experimental results show that the environment works well in generating a good software engineering process plan to a query about the intermediate stage of software development, between basic design and detailed design.