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Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE)

Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group:

Software Engineering Task Force (SETF)

OBJECTIVES

To investigate potential synergies between the Semantic Web and domains more traditionally associated with Software Engineering. This is to enable the promotion and cross-pollination of both new and established ideas between the two communities, potentially relating to:

Use cases,
The application of models, patterns and frameworks,
Methods and tools,
Underpinning technologies;
Best practice.

The scope of this Task Force will be deliberately wide in order to encourage and capture novel thought and encompass the broad spectrum of interests categorised under the general heading of Software Engineering.

Short-term objectives:

To collect, collate and validate a list of potential ideas and uses for the Semantic Web in Software Engineering and to make this list publicly available,
To evaluate new ideas and uses with an eye for creation of notes recommending inclusion in future standards activities,
To further evaluate ideas already presented to the Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group. These include:-
- The potential for Ontology Driven Software Engineering, Ontology Driven Architectures (ODA) and the crossover between Ontology Engineering and Software Engineering,
- The use of composite identification schemes on the Semantic Web and their potential use for 'ontology joining' and the reduction of ambiguity across the Software Lifecycle,
- The construction of dynamic self-organising applications using Semantic Web technologies;
- The use of Semantic Web Technologies to produce highly adapted/adaptive (user) interfaces and support tools.

Long-term objectives

To promote the wider use of the Semantic Web in Information Technology,
To stimulate interest in the use of the Semantic Web in Software Engineering by acting as a repository for synergy-based ideas,
To encourage dialog between traditional software and Semantic Web developers;
To promote development of supporting tooling.

APPROACH

It is hoped that initial ideas and topics for discussion will be generated internally within the SWBP working group and that this work will eventually stimulate input form the wider W3C community and contributing organisations and institutions. As such there is an aspiration that this Task Force will act as an early catalyst for the promotion and pragmatic deployment of the Semantic Web in the global IT industry.

Because of the broad ambition of this Task Force it is intended to restrict the submission of ideas to W3C members and affiliated organisations.

The Task Force will operate for the remaining duration of the Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group.

SCOPE

Ideas presented by W3C members and the associated affiliated organisations during the lifespan of the Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group.

OUT OF SCOPE

Ideas from non-W3C member organisations or individuals,
Ontology patterns and engineering, although output from the OEP Task Force may well feed into this work activity;
Existing applications and demos, as outlined in the objectives of the ADTF.

DELIVERABLES

Ontology Driven Architectures and Potential Uses of the Semantic Web in Software Engineering
A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
Composite Inverse Functional Property

TARGET AUDIENCE & USE CASES

Software Engineering practitioners and affiliated organizations and institutions, including:

Software Engineers who are interested in the benefits and potentials of Semantic Web technologies
Members of the Semantic Web community
Members of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) community who may be interested in ontologies as models
Members of the the automated software engineering community who are interested in formal methods for [partially] automating the development of software systems
Knowledge Representation and Inference researchers interested in practical applications

DEPENDENCIES

SWBPD/OEP Task Force

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Phil Tetlow, co-Coordinator
Jeff Z. Pan, co-Coordinator
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