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A Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Environment for reusable software requirements and architectures

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This paper describes a prototype Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Environment used to demonstrate the concepts of reuse of software requirements and software architectures. The prototype environment, which is application-domain independent, is used to support the development of domain models and to generate target system specifications from them. The prototype environment consists of an integrated set of commercial-off-the-shelf software tools and custom developed software tools.

The concept of reuse is prevalent at several levels of the domain modeling method and prototype environment. The environment itself is domain-independent thereby supporting the specification of diverse application domain models. The domain modeling method specifies a family of systems rather than a single system; features characterize the variations in functional requirements supported by the family and individual family members are specified by the features they are to support. The knowledge-based approach to target system generation provides the rules for generating target system specifications from the domain model; target system specifications, themselves, may be stored in an object repository for subsequent retrieval and reuse.

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    H. Gomaa, L. Kerschberg, V. Sugumaran, C. Bosch, I. Tavakoli & L. O'Hara

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Gomaa, H., Kerschberg, L., Sugumaran, V. et al. A Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Environment for reusable software requirements and architectures. Autom Software Eng 3, 285–307 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00132570

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