Title: Social Global Repository: using semantics and social web in software projects

Authors: Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Juan Miguel Gomez-Berbis, Angel Garcia-Crespo, Inmaculada Puebla-Sanchez

Addresses: Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganes, 28911, Madrid, Spain. ' Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganes, 28911, Madrid, Spain. ' Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganes, 28911, Madrid, Spain. ' Computer Science Department, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Ctra. Pozuelo-Majadahonda Km. 1.8, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, Spain

Abstract: Software has become crucial for everyday matters. In this context, the effective management of the software development process has become an essential issue for business survival in an ever more competitive industry. In order to gain business strengths from the development process, organisations need to carry out software development in the most efficient manner possible, avoiding redundancy and time losses. This paper presents an architecture which combines the strengths of two technologies, web 2.0 and the semantic web, as a solution to reuse and extrapolate knowledge and software products across projects and organisations. The Social Global Repository (SGR) is a tool which incorporates the established methodological recommendations of Software Engineering (SE) in an environment which provides support, flexibility and up-to-date solutions to software development teams.

Keywords: software engineering; web 2.0; semantic web; reuse; knowledge extrapolation; social web; software development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2008.022063

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2008 Vol.4 No.5, pp.452 - 464

Published online: 17 Dec 2008 *

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