Analogical and Dependency Directed Reasoning Strategies for Large Systems Evolution

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Vasant Dhar

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business; New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

Matthias Jarke

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: August 1985

Abstract

The maintenance of large information systems involves continuous design modifications to designs in response to evolving business conditions or changing user requirements. Because of the complexity barrier associated with engineering such systems, changes can be ad hoc and prone to errors. Based on our observations of such a process in the oil industry, we believe that the systems maintenance activity would benefit greatly if the process knowledge reflecting the teleology of a design could be captured and used in order to reason about changing requirements, and to design parts of systems that might be â¬ÂSsimilarâ¬Â? to existing ones. In this paper, we describe a partially implemented formalism called REMAP (REpresentation and MAintenance of Process knowledge) that accumulates design process knowledge to manage systems evolution. To accomplish this, REMAP acquires and maintains dependencies among the design decisions made during a prototyping process as well as the general domain-specific design rules on which such dependencies are based. This knowledge can then be applied to prototype refinement, systems maintenance, and the re-use of existing designs to construct â¬ÂSsimilarâ¬Â? design fragments.

Suggested Citation

Dhar, Vasant and Jarke, Matthias, Analogical and Dependency Directed Reasoning Strategies for Large Systems Evolution (August 1985). NYU Working Paper No. IS-85-66, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1290099

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