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MetaProPOS: A Meta-Process Patterns Ontology for Software Development Communities

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2011)

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Abstract

Process patterns are a valuable mechanism to capture and disseminate best practices during any software development process. Consequently, they have been successfully and increasingly used within software development communities to reuse proven solutions. But the multiplicity, diversity and widespread dissemination of their descriptions are making barriers to identify relevant patterns for a specific context. Hence, a more formal and unified representation of process patterns is needed to allow a rigorous reasoning process as well as machine processing means in order to provide architectural and semantic unification of patterns knowledge in addition to an intelligent interconnection of patterns that are most appropriate to solve a given problem. In this context, we propose a semantic representation based on a process pattern meta-model for which an ontology-based approach is adopted. This latter provides a formal and shared conceptualization as well as a robust inferential basis for building an intelligent framework of process patterns capitalization and reuse within software development communities improving therefore, their ability to develop high quality software.

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  1. RIADI Laboratory, National School of Computer Science, University of La Manouba, La Manouba, 2010, Tunisia

    Nahla Jlaiel & Mohamed Ben Ahmed

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  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of omputer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, 599-8531, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Jlaiel, N., Ben Ahmed, M. (2011). MetaProPOS: A Meta-Process Patterns Ontology for Software Development Communities. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23851-2_53

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