| Summary: | In this thesis we use Semantic Web techniques for the formal representation of the decision analysis and the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) to coalesce decision making process with a software engineering life cycle. In this way, a formal artifact can be produced that expresses how and why a decision was made, which can be linked into the many other artifacts of the development process. Semantic Web search tools may then be employed to find similar decisions so that they may
be reused. [Duggar07] Semantic technology can have a significant impact on retrieval, reuse,interoperability, consistency, enforcement of policy and validation of decision analyses. We have developed an OWL ontology for the basic decision process that we have represented using EPF. We integrated the process ontology with our OWL decision analysis annotation ontology. Finally, we have used the resulting ontology to annotate a sample of decisions and the processes by which they were
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