The roles of scenario use in ontology development

✍ Scribed by Jintae Lee

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1092-4604
• DOI: 10.1002/kpm.264

✦ Synopsis

With the recent focus on knowledge management and knowledge-based systems, the proper development of ontologies, that is, conceptual structures underlying these systems, has become critical. Also recently, the benefits of using scenarios in the development of artifacts have received much attention in multiple disciplines. This paper examines the roles that scenarios can play in ontology development. It presents a set of claims about why scenarios are useful and how they can be used to support each phase of the ontology development lifecycle. These claims are drawn from, supported by, and illustrated with the lessons from a 5-year ontology design project that led to a NIST specification of the process ontology that is on the way to become an International Standard Organisation (ISO) standard. Based on the analysis of these claims, an overall picture relating the roles of scenario use in ontology development is presented in an effort to help ontology developers better understand why, when and how to use scenarios. The results of this study are also related to the earlier studies of the scenario uses in other related disciplines such as software engineering, human-computer interaction and management.