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Going along with the successful dissemination of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the growing popularity of the Model driven Development (MDD) initiative models are occupying the world of Software Engineering. As prescriptive means they are not only changing — and maybe soon dominating - our approaches to software construction but in their descriptive function they have also considerably influenced our views on software application domains. Since software systems and their application domains are almost ubiquitous we can say: models reflect and represent our view on the real world. In philosophical terms, models have no longer just a technical end and purpose but they reflect our Weltanschauung, i.e. are part and centre of modern ontology.
In this contribution I shall focus on the ontological dimension of software modelling. Models are like windows between the outer, “real” world and our inner world of understanding — described and reflected by software. Software development is reality construction and with our application models we reconstruct our surroundding world. By this re-construction it is converted (and reduced) to a world of objects modelled as data capsules and maybe soon controlled by RFID chips. So called “ontologies” are the dictionaries of this construction process.
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Hesse, W. (2008). Engineers Discovering the “Real World” — From Model-Driven to Ontology-Based Software Engineering. In: Kaschek, R., Kop, C., Steinberger, C., Fliedl, G. (eds) Information Systems and e-Business Technologies. UNISCON 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78942-0_16
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