An Object-Oriented Repository-Based Software Synthesis System

<p>This research provides a repository on which various Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) transformational software synthesis tools can store share and manage data using a common repository information model. This information model was created by integrating a variety of separately-developed AFIT software synthesis object models into a wide-spectrum model. Additionally a methodology for describing complex relationships between artifacts in the repository is described. These relationships can be used to relate software synthesis artifacts created in a variety of formats including text binary and the AFIT Wide-Spectrum Object Modeling Environment (AWSOME) information model. The relationships can be exploited for the retrieval understanding and selection of reusable software engineering artifacts. Finally a methodology that uses the repository relationships to generate a history of the semi-automatically generated designs is described. Future efforts can use the design history to re-create designs automatically when new requirements dictate changes to a related analysis model.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>