SDM Ontology

Strategic Decision-Making ontology provides a common underlying language integrating the concepts to manage decisions and to handle strategic indicators. This ontology enables structuring the knowledge in a way that favours its understanding and communication and it has been used as a basis for the construction of the strategic dashboard. Moreover, this ontology will be used, in future versions of the dashboard, to provide reasoning capabilities such as suggestions on demand. The SDM ontology identifies the key terms through a glossary and their relationships through a conceptual model, represented with a UML class diagram and associated integrity constraints. This ontology is supporting the scientific core work packages of the project (WP1, WP2, and WP3), making explicit the relation among them. The knowledge coming from the three areas covered by the different WPs leads the structure of the ontology organized into three packages: strategic-decision making, quality assessment, and quality aware rapid software development process.

• Strategic Decision-Making: including the concepts related to strategic indicators and to the process for supporting decision-makers to make strategic decisions. See Terms for Strategic Decision-Making for terms description.
• Quality Assessment: including the concepts related to the assessment of the level of software quality during development and runtime. See Terms for Quality Assessment for terms description.
• Quality Aware Rapid Software Development Process: including the concepts related to the development process focusing on the software life cycle integrating quality and functional requirements. See Terms for Quality-aware Process for terms description.