The Domain Theory: Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

by Sutcliffe; Alistair

• ISBN13: 9780805839517
• ISBN10: 0805839518
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135644291
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

*The preface is exceedingly techinical. I (EW) will ask for ABI description from author*

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Foreword	xvii
Background and Concepts	1	(32)
Reuse Approaches and History	1	(3)
Motivations for Reuse	4	(1)
Dimensions of the Reuse Problem	5	(2)
Reuse of Knowledge and Designs	7	(3)
Knowledge-Management Reuse	10	(2)
Design Reuse	12	(5)
Models of the System and the World	17	(8)
Embedding Software in the World	17	(3)
Physical World Models	20	(2)
Information Models	22	(1)
Models of People	23	(1)
Models of Software	23	(1)
Acquiring and Updating Models	24	(1)
Outline of the Reuse Process	25	(1)
Barriers to Success	26	(2)
Classifying Components	28	(2)
Classifying Knowledge	30	(1)
Summary	31	(2)
Conceptual Foundations for Reuse	33	(26)
Reuse Paradigms	34	(2)
Design Criteria for Reuse	36	(14)
Abstraction	38	(6)
Granularity	44	(6)
Reuse Strategies and Trade-Offs	50	(7)
Design by Adaptation and Parameterization	52	(2)
Black-Box Reuse by Configuration	54	(1)
White-Box Reuse: Design by Composition	55	(2)
Summary	57	(2)
Abstraction in the Mind	59	(26)
Memory	60	(8)
Working Memory and Chunking	60	(1)
Long-Term Memory	61	(1)
External Memory	62	(1)
Organization of Memory	63	(5)
Learning	68	(1)
Problem Solving	69	(3)
Reasoning Strategies	70	(2)
Memory and Reasoning	72	(3)
Cognitive Tasks and Knowledge Reuse	75	(8)
Reuse in Decision Making	75	(3)
Cognitive Models of Design and Reuse	78	(1)
Facets of Expertise	79	(1)
Task Model of Reuse	80	(2)
Reuse and Creative Design	82	(1)
Summary	83	(2)
Domain Theory: Foundations	85	(46)
Introduction	86	(2)
Domain Theory Framework	88	(7)
Grounded Domains	92	(1)
Metadomains	93	(1)
Generic Tasks	94	(1)
Representing Domain Knowledge	95	(5)
Key Objects	96	(1)
Agents	96	(1)
Structure Objects	97	(1)
State Transitions	97	(1)
States	98	(1)
Goals	98	(1)
Tasks	99	(1)
Object Properties	99	(1)
Events	99	(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