TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Gonen, Bilal
A1  - Fang, Xingang
A1  - El-Sheikh, Eman
A1  - Bagui, Sikha
A1  - Wilde, Norman
A1  - Zimmermann, Alfred
T1  - Ontological support for the evolution of future services oriented architectures
JF  - Transactions on machine learning and artificial intelligence
N2  - Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) have emerged as a useful framework for developing interoperable, large-scale systems, typically implemented using the Web Services (WS) standards. However, the maintenance and evolution of SOA systems present many challenges. SmartLife applications are intelligent user-centered systems and a special class of SOA systems that present even greater challenges for a software maintainer. Ontologies and ontological modeling can be used to support the evolution of SOA systems. This paper describes the development of a SOA evolution ontology and its use to develop an ontological model of a SOA system. The ontology is based on a standard SOA ontology. The ontological model can be used to provide semantic and visual support for software maintainers during routine maintenance tasks. We discuss a case study to illustrate this approach, as well as the strengths and limitations.
KW  - ontology
KW  - ontological modeling
KW  - services oriented architecture
KW  - software evolution
KW  - software maintenance
KW  - semantic support
Y1  - 2014
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-7359
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14738/tmlai.26.784
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14738/tmlai.26.784
VL  - 2
IS  - 6
SP  - 77
EP  - 90
S1  - 14
PB  - Society for Science and Education
ER  -