{"title":"Towards a design assistant for distributed embedded systems","authors":"D. Setliff, J. Strosnider, Jose A. Madriz","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632860","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of a distributed embedded system design assistant called Systems Engineers Workbench (SEW 2.0). SEW 2.0 uses a suite of design frameworks, with supporting representations, to structure the inherent complexity. A set of design assist operatives further improves the ability of the designer to explore the domain space while evaluating performance/resource tradeoffs.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115737402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling the application domains of software engineering technologies","authors":"A. Birk","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632850","url":null,"abstract":"The effectiveness of software engineering technologies depends very much on the situation in which they are applied. In order to further improve software development practices one needs to explicitly describe and utilise knowledge about application domains of software engineering technologies. The paper suggests a modelling formalism for supporting systematic reuse of software engineering technologies during planning of software projects and improvement programs.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127502204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tools supporting the creation and evolution of software development knowledge","authors":"S. Henninger","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632823","url":null,"abstract":"Software development is a knowledge-intensive activity involving the integration of diverse knowledge sources that undergo constant change. The volatility of knowledge in software development requires that knowledge bases are able to support a continuous knowledge acquisition process where tools are available that can make use of partial knowledge. To address these issues, case-based technology is used in combination with an organizational learning process to create an approach that turns Standard Development Methodologies (SDM) into living documents that capture project experiences and emerging requirements as they are encountered in an organization. A rule-based system is used to tailor the SDM to meet the characteristics of individual projects and provide relevant development knowledge throughout the development lifecycle.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126635142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving proofs-as-programs into practice","authors":"J. Caldwell","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632819","url":null,"abstract":"Proofs in the Nuprl system, an implementation of a constructive type theory, yield \"correct-by-construction\" programs. In this paper a new methodology is presented for extracting efficient and readable programs from inductive proofs. The resulting extracted programs are in a form suitable for use in hierarchical verifications in that they are amenable to clean partial evaluation via extensions to the Nuprl rewrite system. The method is based on two elements: specifications written with careful use of the Nuprl set-type to restrict the extracts to strictly computational content; and on proofs that use induction tactics that generate extracts using familiar fixed-point combinators of the untyped lambda calculus. In this paper the methodology is described and its application is illustrated by example.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122072604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TESS: automated support for the evolution of persistent types","authors":"Barbara Lerner","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632837","url":null,"abstract":"Persistent data often has a long lifetime. During its lifetime, the types that are used to structure the data may undergo evolution to support new requirements or provide more efficient services. This evolution often makes the persistent data inaccessible unless it also evolves with the types. Existing systems that support type and data evolution focus on changes isolated to individual types, thereby limiting what can be easily accomplished during maintenance. We extend this work by presenting a model of compound type changes that can also describe changes simultaneously involving multiple types and their effects on data. We then describe TESS (Type Evolution Software System), a system to automate the evolution of types and their associated data when the types undergo compound type changes.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"83 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113940883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the verification of VDM specification and refinement with PVS","authors":"S. Maharaj, J. Bicarregui","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632849","url":null,"abstract":"Although the formal method VDM has been in existence since the 1970s, there are still no satisfactory tools to support verification in VDM. The paper deals with one possible means of approaching this problem by using the PVS theorem-prover. It describes a translation of a VDM-SL specification into the PVS specification language using, essentially, the very transparent translation methods described by Agerholm (1996). PVS was used to typecheck the specification and to prove some non-trivial validation conditions. Next, a more abstract specification of the same system was also expressed in PVS, and the original specification was shown to be a refinement of this one. The drawbacks of the translation are that it must be done manually (though automation may be possible), and that the \"shallow embedding\" technique which is used does not accurately capture the proof rules of VDM-SL. The benefits come from the facts that the portion of VDM-SL which can be represented is substantial and that it is a great advantage to be able to use the powerful PVS proof-checker.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132722288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing the component reusability in data-intensive business programs through interface separation","authors":"Hee Beng Kuan Tan","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632861","url":null,"abstract":"Visual development environments have provided good support in the reuse of graphical user interface, report and query generation, and simpler database retrieval and updating. However, many commonly used components for computation and database processing and updating are still required to be repeatedly designed and developed. The main problem is that current methods do not support the separation of component interface from a component. Component interface is not an intrinsic property of the component. Incorporating it into the component affects the reusability of the component adversely. A program representation is proposed in this paper to address the problem. The representation enhances the reusability of a component through separating the component interface front the component.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115063454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specification and verification of the Co/sub 4/ distributed knowledge system using LOTOS","authors":"C. Pecheur","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632825","url":null,"abstract":"This paper relates the formal specification and verification of a consensual decision protocol based on Co/sub 4/, a computer environment dedicated to the building of a distributed knowledge base. This protocol has been specified in the ISO formal description technique LOTOS. The CADP tools from the EUCALYPTUS LOTOS toolset have been used to verify different safety and liveness properties. The verification work has confirmed an announced violation of knowledge consistency and has put forth a case of inconsistent hierarchy, four cases of unexpected message reception and some further local corrections in the definition of the protocol.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116168596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting domain-specific knowledge to refine simulation specifications","authors":"D. Pautler, S. Woods, A. Quilici","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632831","url":null,"abstract":"Discusses our approach to the problem of refining high-level simulation specifications. Our domain is simulated combat training for tank platoon members. Our input is a high-level specification for a training scenario and our output is an executable specification for the behavior of a network-based combat simulator. Our approach combines a detailed model of the tank training domain with nonlinear planning and constraint satisfaction techniques. Our initial implementation is successful in large part because of our use of domain knowledge to limit the branching factor of the planner and the constraint satisfaction engine.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129359758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive component-based software development with Espresso","authors":"Ted W. Faison","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1997.632851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1997.632851","url":null,"abstract":"Most component models in use today are language-independent, but also platform-dependent and not designed specifically to support a tool-based visual development paradigm. Espresso is a new component model that was designed with the goal of supporting software development through tool-based visual component composition. Being implemented in Java, Espresso components can run on any Java-enabled platform.","PeriodicalId":337824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134294996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}