Applying ontology approach to information system design

Аuthors

Nabatov A. N.^*, Vedenyapin I. E.^**, Mukhtarov A. R.^***

Ufa State Aviation Technical University, USATU, 12, K. Marx str., Ufa, 450008, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

*e-mail: nbtv@yandex.ru
**e-mail: vig@ugatu.su
***e-mail: mar@ugatu.su

Abstract

The article considers the problems of corporate information systems development, design, upgrade and operation. The process complexities that are needed to be overcome by the participants – customers, the owners of corporate information systems, executors – architects, designers, programmers, implementation specialists, as well as those who will operate the information system – administrators and users, are discussed. The well-known and new approaches to the information systems design are being studied. The advantages and disadvantages of these approaches are considered. A design approach associated with the known technologies combining is proposed. At the core of the proposal is sharing the ontological and entity-relationship modeling methods. An example of the information system design beginning for an ordinary manager is considered. The example describes the environment, both technical and information, as well as classification of tasks and resources necessary for the manager while performing his official duties. The example is given based on ontological approach. On this basis the state vectors, describing the manager’s workplace, as well as his tasks, are presented. The ontologies integration into a unified structure is shown, and a conclusion on the links complication between the combined ontology elements is made. This conclusion is also confirmed by the state vector. Similarly, a connection-based approach is simulated on the same example. A principal possibility of these approaches combining based on the basic subject area commonness is shown. Generality is ensured by a single glossary, applied in both approaches. This allows conducting a comparative analysis of the obtained models. The XML representation format as the consolidation platform is proposed. It is demonstrated that both the ontology and the entity-relationship models can be represented as an XML structure.

Keywords:

information systems design, entity-relationship model, ontology approach, XML data form

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