{"title":"Larger scale systems require higher-level abstractions","authors":"M. Shaw","doi":"10.1145/75199.75222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/75199.75222","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past thirty years, abstraction techniques such as high level programming languages and abstract data types have improved our ability to specify and develop software. However, the increasing size and complexity of software systems have introduced new problems that are not solved by the current techniques. These new problems involve the system-level design of software, in which the important decisions are concerned with the kinds of modules and subsystems to use and the way these modules and subsystems are organized. This level of organization, the software archirecrure level, requires new kinds of abstractions that capture essential properties of major subsystems and the ways they interact.","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122833914","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":"A look through PRISMA: towards pluralistic knowledge-based environments for software specification acquisition","authors":"Celso Niskier, T. Maibaum, D. Schwabe","doi":"10.1145/75199.75219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/75199.75219","url":null,"abstract":"A pluralistic attitude to software specification acquisition is proposed, where multiple viewpoints/formalisms are simultaneously used to describe more comprehensively the required system. Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic (heuristic) aspects of Entity Relationship Models, Data Flow Diagrams and Petri Nets are captured using Prolog as a metalanguage. More general heuristics indicating complementarity consistency between methods are also formal&d. The construction of PRISMA a pluralistic knowledge-based system is. described, and the approach is ilustrated via examples. Theoretical and practical issues related to specification processes and environments supporting a pluralistic paradigm are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123744360","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 Implementation of a Distributed Planning and Information System for Courses Based on Story Driven Modeling","authors":"J. Weber, Albert Zündorf","doi":"10.5555/857205.858301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/857205.858301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133417414","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":"Bridging the Requirements Gap: Policies, Goals, and Domains","authors":"A. Sutcliffe, N. Maiden","doi":"10.5555/951807.951817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/951807.951817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125091755","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":"A Mathematical Toolbox for the Software Architec","authors":"J. Fiadeiro, T. Maibaum","doi":"10.5555/857204.858267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/857204.858267","url":null,"abstract":"It is suggested that Category Theory provides the right level of mathematical abstraction to address languages for describing software architectures. Contrarily to most other formalisations of SA concepts, Category Theory does not promote any particular formalism for component and connector description but provides instead the very semantics of the concepts that are related to the gross modularisation of complex systems like \"interconnection\", \"configuration\", \"instantiation\" and \"composition\". Two examples, a category of programs for a parallel program design language and a category of temporal logic specifications, together with comparisons with other work, namely by Allen and Garlan, and Moriconi and Qian, are adduced to justify this claim.","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128879643","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":"Abstraction and composition in Δ-specifications of concurrent systems","authors":"J. Loyall, S. Kaplan, S. K. Goering","doi":"10.5555/952786.952795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/952786.952795","url":null,"abstract":"We have been investigating the application of the Δ-grammar graph rewriting model to the problem of specifying concurrent systems. In this paper, we present abstraction and composition techniques for the Δ model and illustrate their use through examples.","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124025597","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":"Predicting Operational Behaviour of Abstract Programs During Formal Developments","authors":"Y. A. Ameur","doi":"10.5555/951807.951834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/951807.951834","url":null,"abstract":"A seat backrest having a contourable upholstered portion supported by a rigid frame portion includes means to produce a desired supporting contour in the lumbar region of the seat occupant. The contour-producing means includes a lumbar pad, a pair of link members connecting the lumbar pad to the frame, and a double threaded shaft means operable by a seated occupant from the side of the backrest for moving and holding the link members in an infinite number of fixed, generally horizontal positions forward of the frame. The position of maximum lumbar support can be adjusted vertically by pivoting the link members and lumbar pad by means of a pin which is engaged with an angled slot in a sliding plate.","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123474428","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":"A Petri-Net -Based Approach to Real-Time Program Analysis","authors":"U. Buy, R. Sloan","doi":"10.5555/951807.951818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/951807.951818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132388115","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":"Specifications Approaches Express Different World Hypotheses","authors":"D. Marca, C. McGowan","doi":"10.5555/951807.951839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/951807.951839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132046174","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":"Truth vs Knowledge: The Difference Between What a Component Does and What We Know It Does","authors":"Mary Shaw","doi":"10.5555/857204.858277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/857204.858277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":435917,"journal":{"name":"International Workshop on Software Specification and Design","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134181104","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}