An application of situation theory

Author

Scheurer, Thierry

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

358

Abstract

A set-theoretical model of interactive processes, called DPC, is described by T. Scheurer (2000). The purpose of the paper is to present an application which is very general: it is the distributed production of software through a team of programmers working independently of one another. This process is described as consisting of a set of partially concurrent subprocesses. These are not known individually beforehand: they arise dynamically, each in response to the outcome of previous ones. The main purpose of the paper is to show how this overall process is modelled by DPC. To keep the application simple, we assume that it is concerned with the construction of any program in a procedural language like Pascal or C++

Keywords

distributed processing; interactive systems; programming; programming theory; set theory; software development management; C++; DPC; Pascal; distributed software production; interactive processes; partially concurrent subprocesses; procedural language; programmers; set-theoretical model; situation theory application; Application software; Buildings; Computer networks; Concrete; Concurrent computing; Context modeling; Distributed computing; Production; Programming profession; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nashville, TN

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6583-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2000.885017

Filename

885017