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The knowledge about software organizations is considerably relevant to software engineers. The use of a common vocabulary for representing the useful knowledge about software organizations involved in software projects is important for several reasons, such as to support knowledge reuse and to allow communication and interoperability between tools. Domain ontologies can be used to define a common vocabulary for sharing and reuse of knowledge about some domain. Foundational ontologies can be used for evaluating and re-designing domain ontologies, giving to these real-world semantics. This paper presents an evaluating of a Software Enterprise Ontology that was reengineered using the Unified Foundation Ontology (UFO) as basis.
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Perini Barcellos, M., de Almeida Falbo, R. (2009). Using a Foundational Ontology for Reengineering a Software Enterprise Ontology. In: Heuser, C.A., Pernul, G. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Challenging Perspectives. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5833. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04947-7_22
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