Artifact: Ontology |  |
To ensure consistent and correct understanding, a product line organization will create a model of concepts and relationships concerning the domain in which the products are based. An ontology provides a vocabulary consisting of the names of these concepts and relationships. The language using the vocabulary uses the concept names as nouns and the behaviors of those concepts as verbs.
Domains: Core Assets Work Product Kinds: Core Assets
Relationships
Roles | Responsible: | Modified By: Domain Expert
Tasks | Input To: | Output From: Create ontology
Description
Main Description | An ontology is a concept map. It captures the names for concepts and relationships as nouns and the behaviors on those concepts as verbs. The result is a vocabulary that the product line organization can use to converse about the products.