Cultural Approaches

Abstract

Software design process has been followed and widely used to describe logical structure of software using different types of design model, to ensure consistency among the multiple views of a design. This paper describes an effort to identify the major concepts in software design that are required to understand system functionality from various perspectives. It also presents systematic framework ontology for software design lifecycle context, ontology development, and ontology representation. The aim is to resolve misunderstanding or misinterpretation especially with ambiguous terms for designers and users who have different backgrounds and knowledge of the software for functional-oriented, object-oriented, component-oriented, agent-oriented designs, and represent the reasons that led the designers to choose one design among the other alternatives.