Conference proceeding
Simon: modeling and analysis of design space structures
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on automated software engineering, pp 329-332
07 Nov 2005
Abstract
The structure of the coupling relation on design decisions is a key factor influencing the evolvability properties and the economic value of a design. The work of Baldwin and Clark is an important step toward a theory of the relationship between structure and value. A key step to enabling rigorous validation and perhaps the eventual use of their ideas for software engineering is formalization of their model. In this paper, we present a brief overview of such a formal model and a prototype software tool, Simon, implementing it. We present Simon's functions for deriving design structure matrices and computing impacts of changes in design decisions, and we sketch an initial experimental evaluation in the form of a replication study of our earlier analysis of Parnas's 1972 paper on information hiding modularity.
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Details
- Title
- Simon
- Creators
- Yuanfang Cai - University of VirginiaKevin Sullivan - University of Virginia
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on automated software engineering, pp 329-332
- Series
- ASE '05
- Publisher
- ACM
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-73349085632
- Other Identifier
- 991020547441904721