Software patterns, knowledge maps, and domain analysis. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mohamed E. Fayad, Huascar A. Sanchez, Srikanth G.K. Hegde, Anshu Basia, Ashka Vakil.
• Authors: Fayad, Mohamed, 1950-; Sanchez, Huascar A; Hegde, Srikanth G. K; Basia, Anshu; Vakil, Ashka
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Authors; ; INTRODUCTION; ; An Overview of Knowledge Maps; Introduction: Key Concepts—Software Stable Models, Knowledge Maps, Pattern Language, Goals, Capabilities (Enduring Business Themes + Business Objects); The Motivation; The Problem; The Objectives; Overview of Software Stability Concepts; Overview of Knowledge Maps; Pattern Languages versus Knowledge Maps: A Brief Comparison; The Solution; Knowledge Maps Methodology or Concurrent Software Development Model; Why Knowledge Maps?; Research Methodology Undertaken; Research Verification and Validation; The Stratification of This Book; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; Abstraction: Knowledge Maps, Stability, and Patterns; Introduction; Levels of Abstraction in Knowledge Maps; Mapping Elements in Knowledge Maps to Software Stability Concepts and Patterns; The Software Stability Model; Goals; Capabilities; Knowledge Maps: Formation and Stable Architectural Patterns ; Development Scenarios; Deployment and Verification and Validation; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; GOALS OF THE KNOWLEDGE MAPS; ; The Goals: Significance and Identification; Introduction; Significance of Goals; An Example: A Simple E-Commerce Application; Dealing with Goals: Extraction and Assessment; Extracting the Goals of a Discipline: The Process; Dealing with Subgoals; Goals of Knowledge Maps; Goal 1: Learning; Goal 2: Discovery; Goal 3: Knowledge; Subgoals; Use an Analogy: Marriage or Friendship; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; Discovery Stable Analysis Pattern; Introduction; Discovery Stable Analysis Pattern; Pattern Name: Discovery Stable Analysis Pattern; Known as; Context; Problem; Challenges and Constraints; Solution; Consequences; Applicability; Related Patterns and Measurability; Modeling Issues, Criteria, and Constraints; Design and Implementation Issues; Testability; Formalization Using Object Constraint Language, Z++ or Object Z, and/or Extended Backus– Naur Form; Business Issues; Known Usages; Tips and Heuristics; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; The Knowledge Stable Analysis Pattern; Introduction; Pattern Documentation; Pattern Name: Knowledge Stable Analysis Pattern; Known As; Context; Problem; Challenges and Constraints; Solution: Pattern Structure and Participants; Applicability with Illustrated Examples; Related Patterns and Measurability; Known Usages; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercise; Projects; ; KNOWLEDGE MAPS CAPABILITIES; ; Capabilities: The Heart of Business; Introduction; The Heart of the Business; Work Flow Metaphor—Workhorses; Dealing with Capabilities: Identification and Assessment; A Goal with No Capability; A Capability with No Goal; Identification Process of Capabilities: an Example ; Capabilities of Knowledge Maps; Capability 1; Capability 2; Capability 3; Capability 4; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; AnyMap Stable Design Pattern; Introduction; Pattern Documentation; Pattern Name: AnyMap Stable Design Pattern; Known as; Context; Problem; Challenges and Constraints; Solution Structure and Participants; Consequences; Applicability with Illustrated Examples; Related Patterns and Measurability; Modeling Issues, Criteria, and Constraints; Design and Implementation Issues; Formalization; Testability; Business Issues; Known Usage; Tips and Heuristics; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Research and Development; Indexing and Dictionary Search; Site Map Development; Projects; ; AnyContext Stable Design Pattern; Introduction; Pattern Documentation; Pattern Name: AnyContext Stable Design Pattern; Known as; Context; Problem; Challenges and Constraints; Solution: Pattern Structure and Participants; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; KNOWLEDGE MAPS, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEPLOYMENT; ; Knowledge Maps: System of Patterns; Introduction; Representation of Knowledge Maps: Structure, Quality Factors, and Properties; Structure of the Knowledge Maps; Knowledge Maps versus Traditional Pattern Languages; Samples of SArchPs; Architecture 1; Architecture 2; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; Development Scenarios: Setting the Stage; Introduction; Implementation Issues of the Knowledge Maps; Type versus Class within TOP; Design Type Specification Template; The Uses of Contracts in the Specification of Design Types; The Hook Specification Template; Specification of the User Model or Storyteller; Components; Aspect-Oriented Modeling; Aspects as Core Design Features in a System; Difference between the Aspect-Oriented Design; Approach and SSM; Identification of whether Aspects Will Be All the EBTs and All the BOs in a System; Understanding whether Aspects in AOP Will Represent Either EBTs or BOs of SSM in a System; Comparison between Extraction of Aspects in AOP, EBTs, and BOs in SSM; Modeling EBTs and BOs as Aspects; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; Deployment, Verification and Validation, and Quality Factors; Introduction; Deployment of Knowledge Maps; The Conceptual Point of View of Deployment; The Practical Point of View of Deployment; The Quality Factors of Deployment; Deployment—V&V Process; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; CASE STUDIES OF THE KNOWLEDGE MAPS; ; Knowledge Map Engine: Initial Work; Introduction; Interfaces Supported by the Knowledge Map Engine; Implementations of the Interfaces; Structures of Types; Construction Heuristics of Engines; The Hooking Facility of the Knowledge Map Engine; An Example: Creating Associations between BOs and IOs ; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; CRC Cards Knowledge Map; Introduction; What Makes an Effective CRC Cards; CRC Cards Knowledge Classification; Toward a Knowledge Map for CRC Cards; Goals or Classification ; Capabilities or Properties; Development Scenarios; Deployment; Family of Patterns—Bird’s-Eye View; Knowledge Map for CRC Cards; The Main Step in the Classification; Pattern 1—Brainstorming Stable Analysis Pattern; Pattern 2—Engagement Stable Analysis Pattern; Pattern 3—CRC Card Modeling Stable Analysis Pattern ; The Main Step in the Capability; Pattern 4—Effective CRC Card Format Pattern; Summary; Open Research Issues; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; References; Future Work and Conclusions; Future Work; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; Projects; ; Appendix A: Pattern Documentation Templates; Appendix B: Other Templates; Appendix C: Stable Patterns Catalog; Appendix D: Sample Requirements; References; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Auerbach
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.4038; Software patterns; Knowledge management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466571440
• Related ISBNs: 9781466571433
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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