Domain Modeling-Based Software Engineering

A Formal Approach

By: Ruqian Lu, Zhi Jin

Write A Review

Hardcover | 31 August 2000

At a Glance

Hardcover
372 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 15.88 x 2.54

Hardcover

$329.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $82.25 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Many approaches have been proposed to enhance software productivity and reliability. These approaches typically fall into three categories: the engineering approach, the formal approach, and the knowledge-based approach. The optimal gain in software productivity cannot be obtained if one relies on only one of these approaches. Thus, the integration of different approaches has also become a major area of research.
No approach can be said to be perfect if it fails to satisfy the following two criteria. Firstly, a good approach should support the full life cycle of software development. Secondly, a good approach should support the development of large-scale software for real use in many application domains. Such an approach can be referred to as a five-in-one approach.
The authors of this book have, for the past eight years, conducted research in knowledge-based software engineering, of which the final goal is to develop a paradigm for software engineering which not only integrates the three approaches mentioned above, but also fulfils the two criteria on which the five-in-one approach is based. Domain Modeling- Based Software Engineering: A Formal Approach explores the results of this research.
Domain Modeling-Based Software Engineering: A Formal Approach will be useful to researchers of knowledge-based software engineering, students and instructors of computer science, and software engineers who are working on large-scale projects of software development and want to use knowledge-based development methods in their work.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Programming & Software Development Software Engineering Computer Science Artificial Intelligence

List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction
Challenge of the Era	p. 3
The Requirement Analysis Gap Revisited	p. 3
The Formal Methods	p. 5
The Knowledge Based Approaches	p. 6
The KISSME Approach	p. 8
Introducing the Domain Knowledge	p. 8
The Knowledge based Formal Approach	p. 10
Ontology based Domain Analysis	p. 11
A Three-Layer Structure of Requirement Elicitation	p. 11
Pre-Requirement Analysis	p. 14
Automatic Generation of Software Architecture	p. 16
Automation, Interaction and Evolution	p. 17
The Knowledge Industry	p. 18
The Eagle Projects and the PROMIS Tools	p. 18
The Eagle I Project	p. 18
The Eagle II Project	p. 18
The Eagle III Project	p. 20
The Eagle IV Project	p. 20
Organization of the book	p. 22
Domain Analysis and Domain Modeling
Ontology-Oriented Domain Analysis: The Foundation	p. 25
Domain Analysis and Domain Engineering	p. 25
DADL: Ontology-Oriented External Domain Knowledge Representation	p. 29
The Features of the Domain	p. 30
The Activity Model	p. 30
The Role Model	p. 31
The Data Model	p. 32
The Domain Flow Model	p. 35
Ontology as Formal Knowledge Representation	p. 36
Can Object-Oriented Paradigm Express the Domain Knowledge?	p. 36
Need for Ontology	p. 37
A General Framework of Information Ontology	p. 38
A Mathematical Model for Ontology	p. 41
The Architecture of Knowledge Models	p. 44
The Design Principle of DOKB	p. 44
Family of Knowledge Models	p. 46
ONONET: The Internal Domain Model Representation	p. 51
INFORM: A Framework of Ontologies and Objects for Information System Modeling	p. 53
Basic Object Types in INFORM	p. 53
Organizing the Basic Entities with Relations	p. 55
The Basic Relation Types in INFORM	p. 56
The Basic Ontologies in INFORM	p. 58
An Example in INFORM	p. 62
SHOP: A Domain Model of Shopping Centers	p. 64
Historical Remarks on Ontology like Domain Knowledge Representation	p. 68
Ontology-Oriented Domain Analysis: The Dynamics	p. 73
A Theory of Domain Classification	p. 74
Need for Domain Classification	p. 74
Enterprise Constructs and Repertory Grids	p. 74
Building Up the Repertory Grids	p. 78
Classifying the Enterprises	p. 81
Classifying the Attributes	p. 91
Build Virtual Domain Models: A Genetic Approach	p. 92
SONONET and Well-Formed Domain Models	p. 104
Interactive Operation for Constructing Domain Models	p. 115
Interactive Operation	p. 116
Tools for Constructing Domain Models	p. 117
Knowledge Base Browser	p. 118
The Knowledge based Software Development
Automating The Requirement Analysis	p. 123
The Pseudo-Natural Language BIDL	p. 123
The Motivation of BIDL	p. 123
The Design of BIDL	p. 124
Formalizing the Pseudo-Natural Languages	p. 130
The Relational Grammar	p. 130
Parsing Pseudo-Natural Language Texts based on Relational Grammars	p. 133
Pseudo-Natural Language for Pre-Requirement Analysis	p. 134
Requirement Acquisition from Texts	p. 134
The Pre-Requirement Analysis and its Automation	p. 135
Requirement Acquisition from Pseudo-Natural Language Texts: First Step of OORA	p. 136
IS-net: Transformational Semantics of BIDL	p. 137
Need for a Semantic Network Representation	p. 137
Syntax and Semantics of IS-net	p. 138
Interactive Knowledge Acquirer and Its Automation	p. 142
INKAI: The PROMIS Knowledge Acquirer	p. 142
Automated Construction of Interactive Knowledge Acquisition Interface	p. 151
Historical Remarks on the Pseudo-Natural Language Understanding PNLU	p. 154
Motivation for Introducing Pseudo-Natural Languages	p. 154
The Basic Idea of PNLU	p. 155
First Experiences in PNLU	p. 158
Application of PNLU Techniques to Information Systems Modeling	p. 158
An Assessment of the PNLU Approach	p. 159
Historical Remarks on Semantic Network Representation	p. 160
The Snetl Language	p. 160
The CS-net Language	p. 162
Historical Remarks on Knowledge Acquirers	p. 163
Oora: Ontology Oriented Requirement Analysis	p. 167
On Executable Specification	p. 167
The Object-Oriented Analysis Revisited	p. 168
Ontology Recognition and Clustering	p. 171
The Procedure of Ontology Recognition and Clustering	p. 171
A Detailed Example	p. 175
Semantic Integrity of OORA	p. 178
What do We Mean by Semantic Integrity?	p. 178
The Small and the Grand BIDL	p. 181
Scalability of the Target Information System	p. 182
Completeness of the Target Information System	p. 183
Consistency of the Target Information System	p. 184
Normality of the Target Information System	p. 185
Intelligence of the Target Information System	p. 186
User Independent And User Dependent Models	p. 186
Why User Dependent Models?	p. 186
Strategy Library and User Model	p. 187
Environment Model	p. 189
Strategy Forest	p. 189
The Case based UDM Generator	p. 193
Make Use of Commonsense	p. 195
Planning Software Architecture	p. 201
Issues on Software Architecture and Architecture Description Languages	p. 201
Motivation of Studying Software Architecture	p. 201
Different Software Architecture	p. 203
Architecture Description Languages	p. 207
The Architecture Description Language NEWCOM	p. 209
An Overview of NEWCOM	p. 209
The Components of NEWCOM	p. 210
The Connectors of NEWCOM	p. 213
An NEWCOM Example	p. 215
A Comparison of NEWCOM with Other Architecture Implementation Languages	p. 216
Planning the Client Server Architecture	p. 217
Planning the Intranet	p. 224
The Virtual Enterprise
Intelligent Information Service	p. 229
Motivation and Approaches	p. 229
A Technical Basis: Processing the Fuzzy Information	p. 231
The Architecture of PRINSE Data Warehouses	p. 234
Hierarchical and Typed Model of Data Warehouse	p. 234
Fuzzy Information Retrieval in Pseudo-Natural Language	p. 237
Natural Style Query Language NQL	p. 237
Query Language Interpreters	p. 239
Query Answer Composers	p. 240
Information Reporters	p. 243
Data Warehouse Builder WARDER	p. 243
Acquisition and Application of Temporal Knowledge	p. 244
The TEMPO System	p. 244
TKDL: A Language For Describing the Temporal Knowledge	p. 245
TKCM: A Compiler for Integrating the Temporal Knowledge	p. 248
Tendency Detection from Temporal Data	p. 252
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	p. 252
Learning Fuzzy Decision Trees	p. 253
Learning Fuzzy Decision Trees from Sequential and Incomplete Data	p. 256
Other Functional Agents of PRINSE	p. 267
Agents as Tendency Detector	p. 267
Agents as Exception Handlers	p. 268
Agents as Time Monitor	p. 268
Software Reuse and System Evolution	p. 269
Software Evolution versus Software Reuse	p. 269
Software Reuse	p. 269
Component Based and Knowledge Based Software Reuse	p. 270
Software Evolution	p. 271
Horizontal System Evolution	p. 272
A General Schema of Software Reuse and Software Evolution in PROMIS	p. 272
Program Evolution at BIDL Level	p. 274
Program Evolution at NEWCOM Level	p. 280
Vertical Software Evolution	p. 282
Software Process as a Third Dimension of Software Evolution	p. 282
Evolution of Software Process in PROMIS	p. 284
Ontology as Software Process	p. 285
Executable Software Process Ontology	p. 289
Database Transformation	p. 295
Meaning and Goals of Database Transformation	p. 295
Data Warehouse Evolution	p. 297
Evolution of Tools	p. 300
Tool Evolution at BIDL Level	p. 300
Tool Evolution at Semantic Network Representation Level	p. 304
Evolution at Knowledge Base Level	p. 305
A Summary
Summary and Assessment	p. 311
Combining Formal Methods with Knowledge Based Ones	p. 311
Ontology as Unified Representation Paradigm for Different Approaches	p. 313
Data Flow Diagram	p. 313
Data Structure Diagram	p. 314
The Jackson Development Method	p. 314
Entity Relationship Data Models	p. 316
Knowledge Based Fast Prototyping and a New Software Life Cycle	p. 317
Pseudo-Natural Language versus Natural Like Languages	p. 322
Pseudo-Natural Language versus Pseudo Code	p. 324
Pseudo-Natural Language versus Limited Natural Language	p. 326
The Knowledge Industry	p. 329
Knowledge Engineers versus Software Engineers	p. 329
Knowledge Industry versus Software Industry	p. 330
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Domain Modeling-Based Software Engineering

A Formal Approach

At a Glance

Hardcover

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Software Engineering

Generative Artificial Intelligence

Technology and Applications

Open for Business

Harnessing the Power of Open-Source in the Corporate World

Open for Business

Harnessing the Power of Open-Source in the Corporate World

Unleashing User Innovation

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on End-User Development and Generative AI

Machine-Learning-Assisted Software Defect Prediction

Hands-on Software Architecture

Unified Architecture Process

Technologies and Innovation

11th International Conference, CITI 2025, Guayaquil, Ecuador, December 8-11, 2025, Proceedings

The Essence of Software Engineering

Semantics With Applications

Advanced Topics in Computer Science

The Pragmatic Programmer 2nd edition

your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

Code

2nd Edition - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Fundamentals of Software Architecture

A Modern Engineering Approach

Making Embedded Systems

2nd Edition - Design Patterns for Great Software

Site Reliability Engineering

How Google Runs Production Systems

Design Patterns

Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Hacking For Dummies

For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Architecture Patterns with Python

Enabling Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Event-Driven Microservices

Head First Design Patterns

Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software 2nd Edition

User Story Mapping

Discover the Whote Story, Build the Right Product

Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering - Global Edition

8th Edition

Git : Pocket Guide

A Working Introduction

Clean Architecture

A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

The Software Architect Elevator

Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise

This product is categorised by