MODA 2015 - 1st International Workshop on Management of Ontology-Driven Architectures

From the very initial stages of design, smart distributed and collaborative software systems entail the incorporation of adequate autonomic capabilities to cope with their short- and long-term architectural evolution. For such smart and autonomic distributed and collaborative software, structural and behavioral semantic specifications become vital for their design, development and runtime management. One promising approach consists in extending the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) by integrating it with the semantic dimension of autonomic properties. This approach can be based on the definition of ontology for CIM, PIM and PSM level models. As a result, the semantic specifications of such systems can be obtained through the integration of such ontology based models with the autonomic properties of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-protection and self-healing. The purpose of this track is to explore and disseminate research work in the area of Management of Ontology-Driven Architectures (MODA). The objective of MODA is to cope with the complexity involved in designing, developing and maintaining smart and autonomic distributed and collaborative software by integrating a variety of architectural approaches, standards, languages and models. Additionally, MODA would take into account the required autonomic strategies of monitoring, analysis, planning and executing in order to ensure that functional and non-functional requirements are properly considered. This first MODA track proposes an ideal context for presenting achievements, surveys and perspectives in the area of ontology-driven approaches applied to software architecture.
Topics of Interest
The topics suggested by this track can be presented in the form of state of the art, research, standards, implementations, experiments, specialized applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, in the following topic areas:
Ontology-driven software design, development, adaptation and evolution:
Unified process (UP) and agile methodologies guided by ontologies
Software requirements specification and traceability, design patterns, quality assurance, software validation and verification based on ontologies
Ontology-driven software evolution
Autonomic computing based on monitoring, analysis, planning and execution guided by ontology-based knowledge base
Ontology-driven management of software architecture:
Service oriented architecture (SOA)
Service component architecture (SCA/OSGi)
Event-driven architecture (EDA)
Business process (BPMN/BPEL) and enterprise service bus (ESB)
Service composition, orchestration and choreography
Ontology-driven Cloud Computing Architectures
Ontology-driven Big Data Architectures