Paper Info
Title
Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present and Future
Abstract
We trace the roots of ontology-drive information systems (ODIS) back to early work in artificial intelligence and software engineering. We examine the lofty goals of the Knowledge-Based Software Assistant project from the 80s, and pose some questions. Why didn't it work? What do we have today instead? What is on the horizon? We examine two critical ideas in software engineering: raising the level of abstraction, and the use of formal methods. We examine several other key technologies and show how they paved the way for today's ODIS. We identify two companies with surprising capabilities that are on the bleeding edge of today's ODIS, and are pointing the way to a bright future. In that future, application development will be opened up to the masses, who will require no computer science background. People will create models in visual environments and the models will be the applications, self-documenting and executing as they are being built. Neither humans nor computers will be writing application code. Most functionality will be created by reusing and combining pre-coded functionality. All application software will be ontology-driven.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.3233/978-1-58603-923-3-3
FOIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
artificial intelligence,pre-coded functionality,application software,application code,bleeding edge,bright future,application development,early work,knowledge-based software assistant project,software engineering,ontology-driven information systems,semantic technology,ontology,visual programming,semantic web,information system,domain modeling
Information system,Data mining,Ontology,Semantic technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software,Formal methods,Application software,Software development,Software framework
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
183
0922-6389
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.84
8
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Uschold142950.37