Knowledge Provisioning - A Context-sensitive Process-oriented Approach Applied to Software Engineering Environments

Gregor Grambow, Roy Oberhauser, Manfred Reichert

2012

Abstract

Software development is a complex, dynamic, and highly intellectual process that provides automation challenges in the areas of process and knowledge management. Moreover, the ability to support the context-sensitive provisioning of knowledge is further exacerbated by the rapidly changing technologies, processes, knowledge, practices, methods, and tool chains that software engineering involves. Thus, the effective and timely provisioning of knowledge and its concrete utilization in the software development process remains problematic. Reasons for this include the need to ascertain the context, to be aware of the process, and to reason and select the appropriate knowledge to provision while abiding by human and other constraints. For such dynamic knowledge and process environments, this paper describes an approach for realizing a knowledge-based system that automatically provisions knowledge aligned with both the actual context (user, process, and project) and with automated workflow governance. To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, a scenario-based application of the implementation to the software engineering domain is shown.

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Grambow G., Oberhauser R. and Reichert M. (2012). Knowledge Provisioning - A Context-sensitive Process-oriented Approach Applied to Software Engineering Environments . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 506-515. DOI: 10.5220/0004083005060515


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Gregor Grambow and Roy Oberhauser and Manfred Reichert},
title={Knowledge Provisioning - A Context-sensitive Process-oriented Approach Applied to Software Engineering Environments },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={506-515},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004083005060515},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Knowledge Provisioning - A Context-sensitive Process-oriented Approach Applied to Software Engineering Environments
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Grambow G.
AU - Oberhauser R.
AU - Reichert M.
PY - 2012
SP - 506
EP - 515
DO - 10.5220/0004083005060515