Integrating domain ontologies in an MDA-based development process of e-health management systems at the CIM level

Abstract

We all know that the development of e-Health management applications goes through several steps, as hence, several stakeholders are involved in the development of these applications. Therefore, it is recommended to define a common vocabulary to facilitate the understanding of the proposed business processes and requirements between these stakeholders in the early stages of this process. On the other hand, the model driven architecture (MDA) is defined by the object management group (OMG) in order to enhance the development process of applications. This architecture is based on three models: CIM, PIM, and PSM; covering all stages of the software development life cycle. The CIM is the first level in this process, which represents a computation independent model. It describes the basic business and requirements analysis, as well as the application domain model. In light of this level, the MDA based approach is presented in this article integrating domain ontologies as CIM model using ODM standard. The process starts with the ODM model representing an eHealth domain ontology, then we transform it into a Class diagram by applying the QVTo transformation engine.