The growth in the size and complexity of software projects is usually accompanied by increased difficulties in project development and management. There is a growing demand for methodologies and computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools to improve project evolution and life-cycle management. Improvements in documentation techniques, in general, and documentation of design rationale, in particular, are predicted to contribute significantly to understanding the design and to communicating about it, thus improving the process of cooperative work also. / An important element in the object-oriented approach to software development is that objects can be classified using inheritance hierarchies. This allows the properties of implemented objects to be inherited and reused. Standard software components correspond to frames, or scripts, which improve understanding. / In this paper, we develop a method to store and retrieve reusable objects. In order to facilitate reusability during the early stages of project development, under uncertainty conditions, objects are associated with concepts, and fuzzy relations are used to represent concept similarity and generalization. Concept properties are represented using an aggregation relation. A possibilistic approach based on fuzzy sets is used to reach and retrieve reusable objects. / Interpretations of concepts, their interrelations and properties yield inheritance hierarchies with exceptions derived automatically. Default reasoning is used in the representation and interpretation of concepts and their properties. / Object classification and indexing issues are discussed and a query language is developed to support information retrieval. This allows for the construction of objects based on reusable resources. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: B, page: 5819. / Major Professor: Lois W. Hawkes. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76813 |
| Contributors | Itzkovich, Ilan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 213 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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