Domain Ontology-Centric Distributed Development of Systems

Dependency management often suffers from labor
intensity and complexity in creating and maintaining
the dependency relations in practice. This is even
more critical in a distributed development, where
developers are geographically distributed and wide
range of tools is used. In this book, domain ontology
is proposed to manage development objects and to
automatically support dependency-link discovery. The
proposed method based on usage of ontology throughout
the whole system development life-cycle. Therefore,
in the book, methodological aspects discussing the
process of information system development from the
viewpoint of the proposed method are elaborated. The
proposed method is useful in management of
development project and its deliverables (development
objects). The potential benefits of the method are
its efficacy in discovering dependency links. The
method is implemented in a prototype system that
allowed validating the method in an empirical
evaluation using two real cases. The experiment and
results are discussed in the book demonstrating
effectiveness and efficiency in discovery of
dependencies among development objects.

Autorentext

Darijus Strasunskas received his PhD in Information Systems from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2006. He has master degree from Vilnius University (2000). His research interests include qualitative and quantitative evaluation of business models and technology, information management, semantic technologies.

Klappentext

Dependency management often suffers from labor intensity and complexity in creating and maintaining the dependency relations in practice. This is even more critical in a distributed development, where developers are geographically distributed and wide range of tools is used. In this book, domain ontology is proposed to manage development objects and to automatically support dependency-link discovery. The proposed method based on usage of ontology throughout the whole system development life-cycle. Therefore, in the book, methodological aspects discussing the process of information system development from the viewpoint of the proposed method are elaborated. The proposed method is useful in management of development project and its deliverables (development objects). The potential benefits of the method are its efficacy in discovering dependency links. The method is implemented in a prototype system that allowed validating the method in an empirical evaluation using two real cases. The experiment and results are discussed in the book demonstrating effectiveness and efficiency in discovery of dependencies among development objects.