Title :
An entity model for conceptual design
Author :
Ichiko, Takao ; Takeuchi, Kenji ; Nango, Nobuhito
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Nat. Yamagata Univ., Yonezawa, Japan
Abstract :
An effort is made to construct an interactive design aid environment with a highly semantic description facility and a logically effective verification facility for increasing software productivity oriented toward reutilization. The proposed method for design simulation is a semantic technique, based on an effective human interface in the entity model constructive process. The system helps human beings to understand and verify during the design process. This can be achieved by semantically representing an entity model and performing predicate calculus on its entity characteristics, using rule-based inference from the database for software conceptual description. Application examples are presented
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; knowledge based systems; programming environments; software reusability; conceptual design; design simulation; entity characteristics; entity model; entity model constructive process; highly semantic description facility; interactive design aid environment; logically effective verification facility; predicate calculus; reutilization; rule-based inference; software conceptual description; software productivity; Calculus; Design engineering; Design methodology; Humans; Machine intelligence; Process design; Productivity; Software design; Software performance; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Tools for Artificial Intelligence, 1989. Architectures, Languages and Algorithms, IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Fairfax, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1984-8
DOI :
10.1109/TAI.1989.65385