TOWARDS A GENERAL ONTOLOGYOF COMPUTER PROGRAMS

Pascal Lando, Anne Lapujade, Gilles Kassel, Frédéric Fürst

2007

Abstract

Over the past decade, ontology research has investigated the field of computer programs. This work has aimed at defining conceptual descriptions of the programs so as to master their design and use. Unfortunately, these efforts have only been partially successful. In this paper, we present the basis of a Core Ontology of Programs and Software (COPS) which integrates the field’s main concepts. But, above all, we emphasize the method used to build the ontology. In fact, COPS specializes not only the DOLCE foundational ontology (“Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering”, Masolo et al., 2003) but also core ontologies of domains (e.g. artefacts, documents) situated on a higher abstraction level. This approach enables us to take into account the “dual nature” of computer programs, which can be considered as both syntactic entities (well-formed expressions in a programming language) and artefacts whose function is to enable computers to process information.

Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Lando P., Lapujade A., Kassel G. and Fürst F. (2007). TOWARDS A GENERAL ONTOLOGYOF COMPUTER PROGRAMS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-05-0, pages 163-170. DOI: 10.5220/0001340901630170

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Pascal Lando and Anne Lapujade and Gilles Kassel and Frédéric Fürst},
title={TOWARDS A GENERAL ONTOLOGYOF COMPUTER PROGRAMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={163-170},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001340901630170},
isbn={978-989-8111-05-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - TOWARDS A GENERAL ONTOLOGYOF COMPUTER PROGRAMS
SN - 978-989-8111-05-0
AU - Lando P.
AU - Lapujade A.
AU - Kassel G.
AU - Fürst F.
PY - 2007
SP - 163
EP - 170
DO - 10.5220/0001340901630170