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Towards an Ontology for Information Systems Development |
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Mauri Leppänen
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Monday, 05 June 2006 |
Various frameworks, meta models and reference models have been
proposed to describe information systems development (ISD) and ISD methods.
Most of them are informal or focused on some specific aspects. This paper
presents an ISD ontology, which aims to provide an integrated
conceptualization of ISD through anchoring it upon the contextual approach.
The ISD ontology is composed of concepts, relationships and constraints
referring to purposes, actors, actions and objects of ISD. It is presented as a
terminology with defined concepts and in meta models in a UML-based
ontology representation language. We believe that although not being complete
the ISD ontology can promote the achievement of a shared understanding of
contextual aspects in ISD. It can be used to analyze and compare existing
frameworks and meta models and as a groundwork for engineering new ISD
methods, or parts thereof.
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