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Building an OWL Ontology Step By Step for Lean-Based Software Development

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Lean Software Development (LSD) is a set of principles and practices that seek to increase the value of the organization by improving quality and soft-ware development processes, through value flow mapping and waste removal. Because of LSD’s contributions, many organizations are interested in implementing it; however, adopting the principles and practices of LSD without knowing the correct process leads to the premature abandonment of this methodology. Therefore, describing the implementation process through a formal and theoretical language, such as a basic ontology, allows you to have a greater perception of the elements to consider if you want to implement LSD. The objective of this research is to develop a base ontology for the implementation of Lean Software Development in an organization using a mature software development process.

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We are grateful for the support provided by the Science, Technology and Innovation National Secretariat of Panama (SENACYT), Scientific Master program TIC-UTP-FISC-2019 and to the National Research System (SNI-SENACYT) which one author is member.

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    Sandra Gutierrez-Rios & Miguel Vargas-Lombardo

  2. Departamento Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, España

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Conceptualization S.G, M.V.; methodology S.G, MV; formal analysis S.G, JG, M.V; research S.G, J.G, M.V.; original-writing S.G, J.G, M.V.; writing—review and edition S.G, J.G, M.V.; Corresponding author, M.V.

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    Miguel Botto-Tobar

  2. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), Quito, Ecuador

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  3. Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

    Oscar Camacho

  4. Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

    Danilo Chávez

  5. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

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  6. Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ibarra, Ecuador

    Marcelo Zambrano Vizuete

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Gutierrez-Rios, S., Gómez Pulido, J.M., Vargas-Lombardo, M. (2021). Building an OWL Ontology Step By Step for Lean-Based Software Development. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Montes León, S., Camacho, O., Chávez, D., Torres-Carrión, P., Zambrano Vizuete, M. (eds) Applied Technologies. ICAT 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71503-8_46

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