The Role of Ontologies in Reusing Domain and Enterprise Engineering Assets

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Čaplinskas, Albertas | Lupeikienė, Audronė | Vasilecas, Olegas

Affiliations: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 2021 Vilnius, Lithuania, e‐mail: {alcapl,audronel}@ktl.mii.lt | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio 11, 2040, Vilnius, Lithuania, e‐mail: olegas@fm.vtu.lt

Abstract: The main purpose of the paper is to compare ontology‐based reuse techniques in domain engineering and enterprise engineering. It discusses attempts to combine classical domain engineering techniques with ontology‐based techniques as well as the attempts to incorporate ontologies in enterprise engineering process and demonstrates that, on the one hand, both approaches still are not mature enough to solve practical reuse problems and, on the other hand, both propose ideas that can be used to develop more mature approach. The main contribution of the paper is the detail description of the problems of ontology‐based reuse of enterprise engineering assets.

Keywords: enterprise engineering, domain engineering, ontology‐based engineering, reuse

Journal: Informatica, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 455-470, 2003