An Ontology-Based Process Editor for Generating Model Mapping in Tool Integration

Tool integration is an important issue in collaborative process to enable interoperability among various tools employed during the development. Model Driven Development uses transformation technique to realize the data exchange between tools. In general, such transformations are defined manually and separately with the development process. Thus, they are rarely reusable and not well integrated with respect to process steps. This paper presents a solution for identifying tool-incompatible points in a process and generating the mappings between artefacts produced by two different tools. To this end, we proposed to integrate a process ontology with a process editor to allow reasoning about the semantics of process models. The idea is using ontology to store process assets from various sources so that the relations between similar elements in different technical spaces can be established automatically. The process editor enriches the ontology by process elements captured from modelling activities. Then the integrated ontology helps the editor detect tool integration points as well as generate the mappings between concerned process elements.