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Reflecting on Ontologies: Towards Ontology-based Agent-oriented Software Engineering
Beydoun, G., Henderson-Sellers, B., Shen, J. and Low, G.
“Ontology” in association with “software engineering” is
becoming commonplace. This paper argues for the need
to place ontologies at the centre of the software
development lifecycle for multi agent systems to enhance
reuse of software workproducts as well as to unify agent-based
software engineering knowledge. The paper
bridges the state-of-the-art of ontologies research from
Knowledge Engineering (KE) within Artificial
Intelligence and Metamodelling within Software
Engineering (SE). It presents a sketch of an ontologybased
Multi Agent System (MAS) methodology
discussing key roles on ontologies and their impact of
workproducts, illustrating these in a MAS software
development project for an important application that
utilizes dynamic web services composition.
Cite as: Beydoun, G., Henderson-Sellers, B., Shen, J. and Low, G. (2009). Reflecting on Ontologies: Towards Ontology-based Agent-oriented Software Engineering. In Proc. Australasian Ontology Workshop 2009 (AOW 2009) Melbourne, Australia. CRPIT, 112. Meyer, T. and Taylor, K. Eds., ACS. 7-16
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