Kuaba approach: Integrating formal semantics and design rationale representation to support design reuse

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-419

  De Medeiros, Adriana Pereira ^a   Schwabe, Daniel ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Design MetaModel; Design Rationale Processing; Design Reuse; Integrated Support Systems; Ontology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; FORMAL METHODS; MODELING LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; DESIGN RATIONALE; DESIGN REUSE; INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS; INTEGRATED SUPPORTS; META MODEL; MODEL- BASED DESIGNS; REPRESENTATION MODEL;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 52249111895     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: 14691760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060408000279     Document Type: Article

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