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Mapping elements from an application domain to architectural abstractions is a significant architecture description activity from the point of view of seamlessness in descriptions. For establishing such a mapping of domain elements to architectural abstractions, an approach based on ontological analysis is presented. The central idea of the approach is to establish the mapping through a uniform framework of understanding that is applicable over the problem domain as well as the solution domain. The reference ontology used is an adaptation of Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) ontology. Typically, an element from an application domain is mapped with an architectural abstraction when both represent the same phenomena from BWW ontology. The approach is realized as a model-driven transformation process.
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Kiwelekar, A.W., Joshi, R.K. (2010). Ontological Analysis for Generating Baseline Architectural Descriptions. In: Babar, M.A., Gorton, I. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15114-9_36
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