In recent years, virtual communities have attracted the attention of scientists and researchers across a variety of disciplines as the cross-disciplinary nature of the field creates the potential for a wider impact than initially intended or anticipated. Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis provides an analysis of virtual communities, explaining their lifecycle in terms of maturity-based models and workflows. An authoritative reference source valuable to academicians, practitioners, and researchers, this book reflects upon key results of research and development projects within online groups…. More >>

Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis

Communication is one of the main activities in software projects, many such projects fail or encounter serious problems because the stakeholders involved have different understandings of the problem domain and/or they use different terminologies. Ontologies can help to mitigate these communication problems. Calero and her coeditors mainly cover two applications of ontologies in software engineering and software techonology: sharing knowledge of the problem domain and using a common terminology among all stakeholders; and filtering the knowledge when defining models and metamodels. The editors structured the contributions into three parts: first, a detailed introduction into the use of ontologies in software engineering and software technology in general; second, the use of ontologies to conceptualize different process-related domains such as software maintenance, software measurement, or SWEBOK, initiated by IEEE; third, the use of ontologies as artifacts in several software proces… More >>

Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology

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