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Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration of Property Graph Schema Design with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Property Graph Schema Design
Purposedifferent
Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h pro PatternSeveral meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope2-4 h4-8 h initial, dann iterativ
Participantsdifferent
1-6Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders2-81-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationPrioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixSchema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample Queries
Tagsno overlap
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
Knowledge graphModelingSemantic
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