Building Requirements Semantics for Networked Software Interoperability

Bin Wen, Keqing He, Jian Wang

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DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2010.32016                

Abstract

Naturally, like the web, integrated software systems in Internet will have to be distributed and heterogeneous. To im-prove the interoperability of services for SAAS, it is crucial to build requirements semantics that will cross the entire lifecycle of services especially on requirements stage. In this paper, a requirements semantics interoperability extend-ing approach called Connecting Ontologies (CO) that will act as semantics information carrier designing to facilitate the requirements identification and services composition is proposed. Semantic measurement of Chinese scenario is explored. By adopting the approach, a series of tools support for transport domain are developed and applied based on CO and DPO (Domain Problem Ontology) to enforce requirements engineering of networked software efficiently.

Keywords

Networked Software, Requirements Semantics, Requirements Engineering, Connecting Ontologies

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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