An Ontology-based Approach for Software Architectural Knowledge Management

Volume 11, Issue 2, pp 93-104 http://dx.doi.org/10.22436/jmcs.011.02.02

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Narges Choobdaran - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, Iran Sayed Mehran Sharafi - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, Iran. Mohamad Reza Khayyambashi - Computer Department, Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Esfahan, Esfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Over the past few years, a large number of models, ontologies and tools have been proposed to capture, share and the management of architectural knowledge (AK) and particularly architectural design decisions (ADD) as an important part of AK of a software-intensive system. However, the growing tendency in Globalization of Software Development sets the stage for new challenges in the management of AK in a geographically distributed context in which it seems the existing AK models and tools are no longer sufficient for such setting. In this paper we develop an ontology-based approach to manage AK in order to partly mitigate the deficiencies of existing AK approaches in a distributed software devotement.

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• Software Architecture
• Architectural Knowledge Management
• Architectural Design Decision
• Ontology

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