Publications

With our publications we cover the most diverse research areas that arise in the field of man, task and technology. In addition to traditional Business Information Systems topics such as knowledge management and business process management, you will also find articles on current topics such as blended learning, cloud computing or smart grids. Use this overview to get an impression of the range and possibilities of research in Business Information Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Towards a Common Body of Knowledge for Engineering Secure Software and Services

Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Towards a Common Body of Knowledge for Engineering Secure Software and Services

Author(s):
Schwittek, Widura; Schmidt, Holger; Eicker, Stefan; Heisel, Maritta
Editor:
Joaquim Filipe, Kecheng Liu
Title of Anthology:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
pages:
369-374
Publisher:
SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications
Location(s):
Paris
Publication Date:
2011
ISBN:
978-989-8425-81-2
Language:
en
Keywords:
common body of knowledge, knowledge management, software engineering, security engineering, services computing, Interdisciplinary
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
doi:10.5220/0003666303690374
Citation:
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Abstract

Interdisciplinary communities involve people and knowledge from different disciplines in addressing a common challenge. Differing perspectives, processes, methods, tools, vocabularies, and standards are problems that arise in this context. We present an approach to support bringing together disciplines based on a common body of knowledge (CBK), in which knowledge from different disciplines is collected, integrated, and structured. The novelty of our approach is twofold: first, it introduces a CBK ontology, which allows one to semantically enrich contents in order to be able to query the CBK in a more elaborate way afterwards. Second, it heavily relies on user participation in building up a CBK, making use of the Semantic MediaWiki as a platform to support collaborative writing. The CBK ontology is backed by a conceptual framework, consisting of concepts to structure the knowledge, to provide access options to it, and to build up a common terminology. To ensure a high quality of the provided contents and to sustain the community’s commitment, we further present organizational means as part of our approach. We demonstrate our work using the example of a Network of Excellence EU project, which aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from services computing, security and software engineering.