Use of Ontologies as a Way to Automate MDE Processes

Model driven engineering (MDE) knows growing interest as much as a research domain as an industry process for building software quickly and reliably. However, in the way to reuse and automation of design processes, it has limitation for this purpose, as it focuses on design much more as on user´s need. Use of an ontology representing domain design knowledge can be a way to bridge the gap between use scenarios and models, and so to empower MDE approaches