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de Oliveira, K.M., Villela, K., Rocha, A.R., Travassos, G.H. (2006). Use of Ontologies in Software Development Environments. In: Calero, C., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M. (eds) Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34518-3_10

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