Proposal of an Hybrid Methodology for Ontology Development by Extending the Process Models of Software Engineering

摘要

W3C’s Semantic Web intents a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused acrossapplication and enterprise. The semantic web and its related technologies are the main directions offuture web development where machine-processable information which supports user tasks. Ontologies areplaying the vital role in Semantic Web. Researches on Ontology engineering had pointed out that an effectiveontology application development methodology with integrated tool support is mandatory for its success. .Potential benefits are there to ontology engineering in making the toolset of Model Driven Architectureapplicable to ontology modeling. Since Software and Ontology engineering are two complimentarybranches, the scope of extension of the well proven methodologies and UML based modeling approachesused in software engineering to ontology engineering can bridge the gap between the engineering branches.This research paper is an attempt to suggest an exclusive hybrid methodology for ontology development fromexisting matured software engineering. Philosophical and engineering aspects of the newly derivedmethodology have been described clearly An attempt has been made for the application of proposedmethodology with protégé editor. The full-fledged implementation of an domain ontology and its validationis the future research direction.