Position Statement: Towards a Definition of Roles for Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Analyzing the notion of role in the literature yields a plurality of views and definitions. In [1–3], we study a broad range of approaches in order to interrelate and harmonize them (where possible) in the context of an ontological framework, whose central component is the top-level ontology General Formal Ontology (GFO) [4]. A major goal of our work is the provision of a role definition which maximizes the coverage of applications of the term “role”. To the extent possible this should be independent from specific application areas, spanning from conceptual modeling to software engineering to linguistics, etc. This leads to a very general, yet weak, analytical definition for the notion of role:
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