Handbook of software engineering & knowledge engineering Vol. 3, Recent advances / editor, S.K. Chang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chang, S. K. (Shi Kuo), 1944-

Series:

Handbook of software engineering & knowledge engineering ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Software engineering.

Knowledge representation--Information theory.

Knowledge representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 p.)

Other Title:

Handbook of software engineering and knowledge engineering

Place of Publication:

River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book covers the recent new advances in software engineering and knowledge engineering. It is intended as a supplement to the two-volume handbook of software engineering and knowledge engineering. The editor and authors are well-known international experts in their respective fields of expertise. Each chapter in the book is entirely self-contained and gives in-depth information on a specific topic of current interest. This book will be a useful desktop companion for both practitioners and students of software engineering and knowledge engineering.

Contents:

Preface; CONTENTS; Analysis Styles for Requirements Engineering: An Organizational Perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Structuring Organizations; 3. Modeling Organizational Styles; 4. Evaluation; 5. A Requirements-Driven Methodology; 6. Conclusion; Attacks and Countermeasures in Software System Security; 1. Introduction; 2. General Security Objectives; 3. Types of Attacks; 4. Countermeasures of Attacks; 5. Security Issues in Mobile Computing; 6. Conclusion and Future Works; Autonomous Software; 1. Introduction; 2. An Illustrative Example; 3. Software Autonomy - The Static View

4. A Dynamic View of Software Autonomy - The Autonomy transformation loop5. Conclusion; Capability Maturity for Software Development; 1. Introduction; 2. What is SW-CMM?; 3. Components of the SW-CMM; 4. Paths to Upper Levels of the SW-CMM; 5. Extensions and Alternatives to the SW-CMM; 6. Capability Maturity Model Integration; 7. Examples of Process Areas in CMMI; 8. Adaptations of the SW-CMM; 9. Evaluation and Criticisms of SW-CMM; 10. Future Directions; Coexistence of Object-Oriented Modeling and Architectural Description; 1. Introduction; 2. Object-Oriented Modeling Approach

3. Architectural Description Approach4. Similarities between Object-Oriented Modeling and Architectural Description; 5. Coexisting Object-Oriented Modeling and Architectural Description; 6. Conclusion and Future Work; 7. Resources; Introspecting Agent-Oriented Design Patterns; 1. Introduction; 2. Social Patterns; 3. A Social Patterns Framework; 4. From Organizational Architectural Styles to Social Design Patterns; 5. Automation; 6. Related Work; 7. Conclusion; Knowledge-Based Inconsistency Detection in UML Models; 1. Introduction; 2. Classification of Consistency

3. Inconsistency Detection Using Description Logics4. Inconsistency Detection Using XML Declarative Descriptions; 5. Related Works; 6. Conclusions; MDA-Based Ontological Engineering; 1. Introduction; 2. An Overview of the Ontologies and the Semantic Web; 3. An Overview of the Semantic Web Tools and Languages; 4. An Overview of Model Driven Architecture and Meta-Object Facility; 5. Current Trends: Using UML and MDA - Based Languages in Ontological Engineering; 6. The Ontology Modeling Architecture; 7. Essential Ontology Dennition Metamodel Concepts; 8. Ontology UML Profile Essentials

9. ConclusionsMigrating Legacy Systems Towards Multi-Layered Web-Based Architectures; 1. Introduction; 2. Related Work; 3. Migration Strategies and Target Architectures; 4. A Supporting Toolkit; 5. Case Studies; 6. Conclusions; Petri Nets: A Tutorial; 1. Introduction; 2. Petri Nets: Basic Concepts; 3. Examples of Petri Nets; 4. Time Petri Nets; 5. Decomposition of Petri Nets; 6. Petri Nets and Fuzzy Reasoning; 7. Summary and Current Trends; Program Slicing; 1. Introduction; 2. Computing Slices; 3. Applications of Slicing; 4. Problems and Challenges in Slicing; 5. Visualization of Slices

6. Refinements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9786611927998

9781281927996

1281927996

9789812775245

9812775242