Ontology Based Multisite Distributed Software Development

Funding: 2004: $70,000
2005: $70,000
2006: $60,000

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)

Start year: 2004

Summary: Increasingly clients in cities are developing software overseas or in regional centres. The participating companies have found existing centralized software engineering techniques inadequate for multisite development. This project produces new principles and techniques for multisite distributed software development. Thus it proposes a new methodology, a new project management approach, a new workflow tracking technique and a new concept of software object/component that allows differentiated access. A platform is also developed for use in field studies for validation and benchmarking. The results will help Australia become a provider of software services for international clients and permit devolution to regional centres.

FOR Codes: Software Engineering, Information Systems Development Methodologies, Computer software and services not elsewhere classified, Information systems development methodologies and practice, Empirical software engineering

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.