The Domain Theory: Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

, by Sutcliffe; Alistair

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ISBN: 9780805839517 | 0805839518
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Copyright: 3/1/2002

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Preface

Foreword

xvii

Background and Concepts

(32)

Reuse Approaches and History

(3)

Motivations for Reuse

(1)

Dimensions of the Reuse Problem

(2)

Reuse of Knowledge and Designs

(3)

Knowledge-Management Reuse

(2)

Design Reuse

(5)

Models of the System and the World

(8)

Embedding Software in the World

(3)

Physical World Models

(2)

Information Models

(1)

Models of People

(1)

Models of Software

(1)

Acquiring and Updating Models

(1)

Outline of the Reuse Process

(1)

Barriers to Success

(2)

Classifying Components

(2)

Classifying Knowledge

(1)

Summary

(2)

Conceptual Foundations for Reuse

(26)

Reuse Paradigms

(2)

Design Criteria for Reuse

(14)

Abstraction

(6)

Granularity

(6)

Reuse Strategies and Trade-Offs

(7)

Design by Adaptation and Parameterization

(2)

Black-Box Reuse by Configuration

(1)

White-Box Reuse: Design by Composition

(2)

Summary

(2)

Abstraction in the Mind

(26)

Memory

(8)

Working Memory and Chunking

(1)

Long-Term Memory

(1)

External Memory

(1)

Organization of Memory

(5)

Learning

(1)

Problem Solving

(3)

Reasoning Strategies

(2)

Memory and Reasoning

(3)

Cognitive Tasks and Knowledge Reuse

(8)

Reuse in Decision Making

(3)

Cognitive Models of Design and Reuse

(1)

Facets of Expertise

(1)

Task Model of Reuse

(2)

Reuse and Creative Design

(1)

Summary

(2)

Domain Theory: Foundations

(46)

Introduction

(2)

Domain Theory Framework

(7)

Grounded Domains

(1)

Metadomains

(1)

Generic Tasks

(1)

Representing Domain Knowledge

(5)

Key Objects

(1)

Agents

(1)

Structure Objects

(1)

State Transitions

(1)

States

(1)

Goals

(1)

Tasks

(1)

Object Properties

(1)

Events

(1)

Stative Conditions

100

(1)

Relationships

100

(1)

Grounded Domains: OSMs

100

(11)

Object Containment (Level 1 Class)

102

(1)

Object Inventory (Level 2 Class)

102

(1)

Object Hiring (Level 3 Class)

103

(1)

Object Allocation (Level 1 Class)

104

(3)

Message Transfer (Level 2 Class)

107

(1)

Object Sensing (Level 1 Class)

107

(1)

Spatial Object Sensing (Level 2 Class)

108

(1)

Agent Control (Level 1 Class)

109

(2)

Modeling Information Systems

111

(1)

Reusing OSMs

111

(13)

Reuse Toolset Architecture

112

(5)

Matching Process and Scenario of Use

117

(7)

Case Study: Describing Applications by an Aggregation of OSMs

124

(3)

Decision Support Subsystem

124

(1)

Information Retrieval Subsystem

125

(1)

Creating a Generic System Model

126

(1)

Validation Studies

127

(1)

Formalization of the Domain Theory

128

(1)

Summary

129

(2)

Generic Tasks and Metadomains

131

(42)

Modeling Generic and Generalized Tasks

132

(20)

Primitive or Generic Tasks

134

(9)

Generalized Tasks

143

(4)

Discovering Generic and Generalized Tasks

147

(2)

Applying and Reusing Generalized Tasks

149

(3)

Generic Dialogues

152

(3)

Interaction Schemes

155

(3)

Argumentation Schemas

158

(3)

Metadomains

161

(9)

Design

162

(1)

Education or Training

163

(3)

Management

166

(2)

Research

168

(2)

Summary

170

(3)

Claims and Knowledge Management

173

(22)

Claims and the Task-Artefact Theory

175

(2)

Claims Knowledge Representation Schema

177

(2)

Documenting Claims

179

(2)

Reusing Claims

181

(3)

Linking Claims to Domain Models

184

(5)

Representing Business Knowledge in Claims

189

(5)

Knowledge-Management Level

189

(3)

Sociotechnical Design Level

192

(2)

Summary

194

(1)

The Reuse Process

195

(32)

Generic Reuse Process

196

(3)

Design for Reuse

199

(6)

Cohesion Analysis

200

(1)

Coupling Analysis

201

(1)

Data Abstraction

202

(1)

Procedural Abstraction

203

(2)

Generalization for Knowledge Reuse

205

(2)

Design by Reuse of Knowledge by Means of Generic Models

207

(18)

Identifying Abstractions

207

(10)

Composing Generic System Models

217

(2)

Transferring Design Knowledge

219

(6)

Summary

225

(2)

Reusing Knowledge and Claims

227

(22)

Knowledge Reuse Process

227

(1)

Generalizing Claims for Reuse

228

(9)

Factoring Issues

230

(1)

Factoring Contributions

231

(1)

Example of Factoring

232

(3)

Generalizing Claims

235

(1)

Linking Claims to Domain Models

236

(1)

Claims Networks

237

(3)

Claims Reuse Process

240

(3)

Retrieving Claims for Reuse

240

(1)

Knowledge Transfer

241

(2)

Case Study: Claims Reuse

243

(4)

Summary

247

(2)

New Concepts

249

(122)

Introduction

249

(7)

Reuse History Revisited

250

(2)

New Approaches

252

(4)

Framework for Software Evolution

256

(2)

Models of Evolving Software

258

(10)

Component Engineering

258

(4)

Programming for Adaptable Software

262

(1)

Application Generation Architectures

263

(1)

End-User Programming or Component Engineering?

264

(4)

Summary

268

(3)

Appendixes

A Specification of the OSM Library

271

(36)

A1 Object Containment

273

(10)

A2 Object Allocation

283

(3)

A3 Object Composition

286

(1)

A4 Object Decomposition

287

(2)

A5 Object Logistics

289

(3)

A6 Object Construction

292

(2)

A7 Object Sensing

294

(4)

A8 Agent Control

298

(2)

A9 Object Simulation

300

(2)

A10 Information System Models

302

(5)

B Generic and Generalized Tasks Models, Dialogues, and Argumentation Schema

307

(52)

B1 Generic Tasks

307

(8)

B2 Generalized Tasks

315

(30)

B3 Generic Dialogues

345

(5)

B4 Argumentation Schemas

350

(9)

C Claims Library

359

(12)

C1 Metadomain: Design

359

(2)

C2 Metadomain: Education

361

(5)

C3 Metadomain: Management

366

(1)

C4 Grounded Domain: Spatial Object Sensing OSM

367

(1)

C5 Generalized Task: Information Retrieval

368

(3)

References

371

(14)

Author Index

385

(6)

Subject Index

391

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The Domain Theory: Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

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