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One Model to Rule Them All

A Demonstration of Ontology-Driven Minimum Viable Product Development for a Local Tourism Platform

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2023)

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Developing platform software is a challenging and multidisciplinary task that requires significant time and relies heavily on effective human interaction and teamwork. To enhance communication and expedite the development of a customized and satisfactory Minimum Viable Product (MVP), a method for ontology-driven MVP development in the digital platform domain was introduced in a previous study. In this paper, another Design Science Research (DSR) cycle is executed to demonstrate the method’s effectiveness through the development of the ‘CreateYourTrip’ cooperative tourism platform aimed at promoting sustainable local tourism in developing countries. The key improvement lies in adopting a single model serving multiple purposes throughout the entire development process, modernizing modeling practices in agile MVP development and improving the development speed, internal and external communication, documentation and requirement engineering quality.

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Notes

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    https://model-a-platform.com/user-stories-of-createyourtrip/.

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    https://purl.archive.org/domain/processmodelcreateyourtrip.

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    https://purl.archive.org/domain/uiprototypecreateyourtrip.

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    https://purl.archive.org/domain/databaseschemacreateyourtrip.

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    https://purl.archive.org/purl/compodoccreateyourtrip.

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  1. Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Thomas Derave, Frederik Gailly & Geert Poels

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Lander Maes

  3. Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services (SCS), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Tiago Prince Sales

  4. CVAMO FMake@UGent, Ghent, Belgium

    Frederik Gailly & Geert Poels

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Derave, T., Maes, L., Sales, T.P., Gailly, F., Poels, G. (2023). One Model to Rule Them All. In: Sales, T.P., Araújo, J., Borbinha, J., Guizzardi, G. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47112-4_22

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