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Domain Modeling Based on Requirements Specification and Ontology

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Domain model plays an important role in software development. Typically, it is a primary input to elaboration of a system model which in turn is translated into source code and related database schemas. Effective development of domain model is a part of requirement engineering during which domain experts are employed to identify domain entities and relationships among them. We claim that this task can be supported by the use of domain ontologies from which interesting knowledge can be extracted. The starting point to knowledge extraction is an existing requirements specification. In this paper, we investigate how the form of requirements specification influences the quality of extracted model. Some measures allowing to assess the quality are introduced. A case study has shown that in the most cases the simplified version of a requirements specification is enough to obtain a satisfactory domain model, however if the domain is very complex, the extended version of requirements specification could be necessary.

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    Domain notions are written in italics.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego, 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland

    Iwona Dubielewicz, Bogumiła Hnatkowska, Zbigniew Huzar & Lech Tuzinkiewicz

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Mgmt, Wroclaw Univ of Tech Faculty of Computer Science and Mgmt, Wroclaw, Poland

    Lech Madeyski

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw, Poland

    Michał Śmiałek

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw University of Technology Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław, Poland

    Bogumiła Hnatkowska

  4. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw University of Technology Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw, Poland

    Zbigniev Huzar

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Dubielewicz, I., Hnatkowska, B., Huzar, Z., Tuzinkiewicz, L. (2017). Domain Modeling Based on Requirements Specification and Ontology. In: Madeyski, L., Śmiałek, M., Hnatkowska, B., Huzar, Z. (eds) Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43606-7_3

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