A Platform for ODSD: The MOST Workbench

In this chapter, we discuss how scalable reasoning technologies (cf. Chap. 5) can be transparently integrated into the existing model-driven software development (MDSD) environments and how MDSD environments leverage reasoning technology, in order to provide scalable ontology-based MDSD services. The successful realisation of ontology-driven software development (ODSD) vision requires a tight coupling of the introduced ontology reasoning services with existing MDSD technology. The challenge of building ontology-enabled MDSD environments is raised by the technological clash between conventional MDSD technology and reasoning technology.