To do this, a reference ontology for the software concern domain, called O4C (Ontology for Concerns) was proposed.
This activity aims to identify the software concerns from the software requirements document.
If a particular requirement "r" is not addressed by any software concern, an occurrence will be generated for this requirement.
The research was funded in part by Intel, networking software concern Novell and three federal agencies.
The possible types of software concern relationships are represented by the "Contribution," "Dependency," and "Composition" concepts (sub-concepts of "Relationship").
August Turak, founder of the Raleigh Group International, a software concern in Raleigh, N.C., takes part in both.
Figure 8b presents the name of the requirements document on which the concerns were identified and a summary of the identification process, highlighting (i) the list of concerns of the used catalog, (ii) the list of identified concerns, (iii) the amount of software requirements, (iv) the amount of requirements affected by software concerns, among others.
The "Concern" concept represents individuals that meet the properties of a software concern (these properties are discussed in this section).
Wang Jia is the chairman of Beijing Venustech, a software concern.
Most of the existing AORE approaches represent the knowledge about software concerns in XML files (templates), developed by the authors of these approaches.
