国外基于本体的信息系统概念建模研究

A Review of Foreign Literature on Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems

信息系统概念建模是在信息系统开发的需求分析阶段，为促进相关人员之间的理解和沟通，对某些领域的静态现象和动态现象进行形式化地表示和建立文档的活动，属于需求工程和软件工程的子学科。基于本体的信息系统概念建模是指用本体理论或模型支持信息系统概念建模的方法。本文根据目前国外学者对基于本体的信息系统概念建模的研究情况，将其分为两个主要的学派：一是BWW本体学派；另一个是REA学派。在此基础上介绍和比较了两大学派的研究成果，并对其未来的研究方向进行了展望。

Conceptual modelling of information systems that occurs during the requirements analysis phase of information systems development is the activities of formally representing and documenting static and dynamic phenomena in some domain. Conceptual modelling belongs as a subdiscipline of requirements engineering and software engineering. Ontology-based conceptual modeling of information systems is the approach that supports conceptual modeling of information systems by using ontological theory or models. According to current studies on ontology-based conceptual modeling of information systems conducted by foreign scholars, this paper divides it into two major schools of thought ： one for BWW ontology school ; another for REA schools. On the basis of it, the study results of two schools are introduced and compared and the direction of their future research is prospected.