Acquisition and Reuse of Knowledge to Design Embedded Software

摘要

A framework for acquiring software design knowledge is presented and an interactive advisory system to reuse that knowledge. The focus is on a particular type of design expertise, called navigation knowledge. Such knowledge is needed to guide the software design process. Addressed are technical issues of which design goals to achieve, what design operators to apply next and how to perform design operations, what kinds of knowledge are needed to navigate, how this knowledge is acquired and what methods are effective for its reuse. Existing knowledge engineering and design tracking techniques are applied to build a problem space for software design and to capture navigation knowledge for searching it. The authors present an organization for the design knowledge centered around a set of generic software construction tasks and an architecture of a knowledge-based assistant system to reuse navigation knowledge.