Paper Info
Title
On designing intelligent hypertext systems for information management in software engineering
Abstract
Information management in large scale software engineering is a challenging problem. Hypertext systems are best suited for this purpose because of the diversity in information types that is permitted in the nodes of a hypertext. The integration of a hypertext system with software engineering tools results in a software hypertext system. We describe the design of such a system called DIF. Based on our experiences in using DIF, we recognized the need and the potential for developing a hypertext system that could utilize knowledge about its users and their software tasks and products. Such a system might then be able to act as an active participant in the software process, rather than being just a passive, albeit useful storage facility. As such, we define an Intelligent Software Hypertext System (I-SHYS1) as a software hypertext system which is knowledgeable about its environment and can use such knowledge to assist in the software process. This knowledge is partly embedded in the design of an I-SHYS (in terms of the 'agents' that I-SHYS supports) and partly defined during the use of I-SHYS (in terms of tasks that agents perform). We present a framework GOT defining and organizing this knowledge, describe potential uses of such knowledge, identify limits of our approach, and suggest methods for circumventing them.
Year
DOI
Venue
1987
10.1145/317426.317455
Hypertext 1999
Keywords
Field
DocType
information type,intelligent hypertext system,software task,intelligent software hypertext system,hypertext system,potential use,software hypertext system,information management,software process,software engineering tools result,large scale software engineering,software engineering
Hypertext,World Wide Web,Software engineering,Computer science,Software system,Component-based software engineering,Resource-oriented architecture,Software construction,Software development,Software sizing,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-340-X
17
4.55
References 
Authors
18
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pankaj Garg130849.93
Walt Scacchi21717430.01