Usage of ontologies in the implementation of the concept of model-driven engineering for the design of heat supply systems

The authors suggest a methodological approach to the creation of software for heat supply system design. The approach is based on the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) methodology and ontologies. MDE is a software development methodology, which focuses on creating and exploiting domain models. Domain models are abstract representations of knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain. The methodological approach allow us to automatically create complex software for optimal design of heat supply systems taking into account the peculiarity of application problems and individual conditions of the development of these systems. The developed approach has been used for the implementation of the software SOSNA intended for solving the problem of heat supply system parameter optimization. The reported study was supported by Russian Foundation of Basic Research, research project No.13-07-00297.