Francisco Ruiz - Böcker

Communication is one of the main activities in software projects, many such projects fail or encounter serious problems because the stakeholders involved have different understandings of the problem domain and/or they use different terminologies. Ontologies can help to mitigate these communication problems.Calero and her coeditors mainly cover two applications of ontologies in software engineering and software techonology: sharing knowledge of the problem domain and using a common terminology among all stakeholders; and filtering the knowledge when defining models and metamodels.The editors structured the contributions into three parts: first, a detailed introduction into the use of ontologies in software engineering and software technology in general; second, the use of ontologies to conceptualize different process-related domains such as software maintenance, software measurement, or SWEBOK, initiated by IEEE; third, the use of ontologies as artifacts in several software processes, like, for example, in OMG’s MOF or MDA.By presenting the advanced use of ontologies in software research and software projects, this book is of benefit to software engineering researchers in both academia and industry.

This Volume contains 41 papers and comprises the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP'96) that was held at the Hotel Melia Costa del Sol, Torremolinos (15 km from Malaga), Spain, May 16-18, 1996. The Conference was attended by 86 people from 22 countries and 63 papers were presented. The Conference was the Second in the series of MOPGP conferences devoted to optimization topics in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), particularly mUltiple objective programming and goal programming. The First conference, MOPGP'94, organized by Mehrdad Tamiz, was held at the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England, June 1-3, 1994. The proceedings volume for that conference was also published by Springer-Verlag. Its citation is: Mehrdad Tamiz (Ed.) (1996). "Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Theories and Applications," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 432, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 359 pp. As of this writing, MOPGP'98, the Third conference in the series, is scheduled for the University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, May 31-June 2, 1998.MOPGP'96 was organized by the Departamento de Economia Aplicada (Matematicas) of the University of Malaga, and chaired by Rafael Caballero. Other members of the Local Organizing Committee were Pablo Lara, University of C6rdoba, and Jose M. Cabello, Mercedes Gonzalez, Lourdes Rey and Francisco Ruiz, all also from the Departamento de Economia Aplicada (Matematicas), University of Malaga.