Ontology of Domain Analysis Concepts in Software System Design Domain

The aim of domain analysis is to extract, identify, capture, organize, and make reusable information used in developing new information systems. Many different concepts are used in the area of domain analysis, such as concerns, features, aspects, subjects, intentions, roles. Metamodeling of domain concepts by constructing domain ontologies (ontology engineering), taxonomies, and meta-models of domain concepts supports flexible, concise, and efficient domain knowledge extraction and analysis; provides means for analyzing, representing, and reusing the results of domain analysis; and is an important step toward the development of knowledge-oriented information systems. The aim of this chapter is to analyze the concepts used in domain analysis of software systems and to construct ontology of concepts in software system design domain that describes relationships between analyzed domain concepts and highlights their properties and characteristics.