KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING USING THE UML PROFILE - Adopting the Model-Driven Architecture for Knowledge-Based System Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Líska ◽  
Pavol Návrat

Currently, one can witness a growing mutual influence between the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the Semantic Web. MDA is an approach that uses models for system development, but its architecture limits usability of these models for knowledge empowered solutions. A lot of research tackles applicability of MDA standards in the technical space of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we present an approach aimed at facilitating the use of Software and Systems Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM) for improvements that are rooted in knowledge engineering approaches. We show how SPEM can be used in the Semantic Web technical space. We describe how following our approach a project plan can be generated and verified. Finally, we present an example of project planning that uses ontology of a software requirements activity.


Author(s):  
Javier Pereda ◽  
Mauricio Hincapie ◽  
Arturo Molina

For a rapid configuration of a given product development process, taking into account today unavoidable market’s requirements as is the integrated product, process and manufacturing system development considering their entire lifecycles, in this paper, an enterprise holistic framework, consisting in a three dimensional model, is described to support the model driven architecture (MDA) concept for global product development projects (GPDP). The holistic framework has been established based on the integration of three fundamental areas of research: concurrent engineering (CE), product lifecycle, and enterprise integration engineering (EIE). The integration of these three fields of knowledge, using a 3D holistic framework, generates a solid support for a model driven architecture. As a result, through a 3D matrix, more important elements of the product development process can be combined and modeled following their natural interactions through the project realization. Questions about a global product development project like: What needs to be developed? Who will develop it? Where will be developed? How will be developed? When is being developed? can be generated during the planning and execution of the project but, as part of this research effort, these questions are answered in an organized manner using the proposed enterprise holistic framework. The conceptual model (enterprise holistic framework) for the global product development project was established as a base to capture, store and configure a project including the integration of product, manufacturing process and manufacturing system development considering their entire lifecycles in the enterprise context.


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