Methoden- und Werkzeugunterstützung für Ontologie-basierte Software-Entwicklung

Re-use is employed in software engineering to in uence e ciency constructively and the overall quality of a product. While well-established tools and technologies are available in the advanced phases of software projects, support is missing to a large extent for analysis of the universe of discourse and the corresponding conceptual modelling of the requirements. At the same time these activities have a decisive in uence on later development and successful implementation of software projects. To enable re-use at the conceptual level, this thesis describes rst of all, how to develop an infrastructure, which allows an exchange of knowledge between participating projects with the help of domain ontology. Subsequently, a process of an ontology development will be de ned, which is based on this infrastructure; its connection to the classical or agile process models will also be described. In addition, a tool to support the process will be introduced.