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Towards Federated Ontology-Driven Data Integration in Continuous Software Engineering

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Paulo Sérgio Santos Júnior,

João Paulo A. Almeida,

Monalessa BarcellosAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '23: Proceedings of the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 31 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/3613372.3613380

Published: 25 September 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Organizations have adopted Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) practices aiming at making software development faster, iterative, integrated, continuous, and aligned with the business. In this context, they often use different applications (e.g., project management tools, source repositories, and quality assessment tools) that store valuable data to support daily activities and decision-making. However, data items often remain spread in different applications that adopt different data and behavioral models, posing a barrier to integrated data usage. As a consequence, data-driven software development is uncommon, missing valuable opportunities for product and process improvement. In this paper, we explore an ontology network addressing CSE aspects to develop a data integration solution in which networked ontologies are the basis to build reusable and autonomous software components that work together in a system federation to provide meaningful integrated data. We achieve a comprehensive and flexible solution that can be used as a whole or partially, by extracting only the components related to the subdomains of interest.

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Towards Federated Ontology-Driven Data Integration in Continuous Software Engineering
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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Hollerer SSauter TKastner W(2024)A Survey of Ontologies Considering General Safety, Security, and Operation Aspects in OTIEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society10.1109/OJIES.2024.34411125(861-885)Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIES.2024.3441112
Bogdanović BObradović ĐSegedinac MKonjović Z(2024)BAB Framework – Towards an Extensible Software Platform for AI-Augmented Process Aware Business Information SystemsDisruptive Information Technologies for a Smart Society10.1007/978-3-031-71419-1_18(197-212)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2024
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