Title
A decision-based configuration process environment
Abstract
In the context of the ESPRIT project DAIDA, we have developed an experimental environment intended to achieve consistency-in-the-large in a multi-person setting. Our conceptual model of configuration processes, the CAD(o) model, centres around decisions that work on configured objects and are subject to structured conversations. The environment, extending the knowledge-based software information system ConceptBase, supports co-operation within development teams by integrating models and tools for argumentation and co-ordination with those for versioning and configuration. Versioning decisions are discussed and decided on within an argument editor, and executed by specialised tools for programming-in-the-small. Tasks are assigned and monitored through a contract tool, and carried out within co-ordinated workspaces under a conflict-tolerant transaction protocol. Consistent configuration and reconfiguration of local results is supported by a logic-based configuration assistant.
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1049/sej.1991.0034
Software Engineering Journal
Field
DocType
Volume
Information system,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Conceptual model,Computer science,Argumentation theory,ConceptBase,Software,Database transaction,Control reconfiguration,Software versioning
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0268-6961
26
PageRank 
References 
Authors
4.06
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Rose1264.06
Matthias Jarke250711762.03
Michael Gocek3284.73
Carlos Maltzahn4120187.49
Hans W. Nissen516528.46