Distance Measures for Information System Reengineering

Poels, Geert; Viaene, Stijn; Dedene, Guido

doi:10.1007/3-540-45140-4_26

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“…We have worked on, and continue to work on, generic models for other domain abstractions. A related topic of research is the definition of distance measures for event-based, object-oriented domain models [18]. Such measures, similar in concept to the similarity measures for components of Castano et al [3], allow to quantify and evaluate the conceptual distance between domains.…”

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Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models

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Poels

2000

Conceptual Modeling — ER 2000

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Reuse of domain models is often limited to the reuse of the structural aspects of the domain (e.g. by means of generic data models). In objectoriented models, reuse of dynamic aspects is achieved by reusing the methods of domain classes. Because in the object-oriented approach any behavior is attached to a class, it is impossible to reuse behavior without at the same time reusing the class. In addition, because of the message passing paradigm, object interaction must be specified as a method attached to one class which is invoked by another class. In this way object interaction is hidden in the behavioral aspects of classes. This makes object interaction schemas difficult to reuse and customize. The focus of this paper is on improving the reuse of object-oriented domain models. This is achieved by centering the behavioral aspects around the concept of business events.

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Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models

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Poels

2000

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“…Currently, we have only gathered limited evidence of the empirical validity of our measures. Some of the complexity and distance measures have been applied in the context of a reference framework for conceptual schemes of an organisation's front-office to investigate their potential as indicators of perceived complexity and reengineering impact [36]. However, we were not able yet to draw definite conclusions regarding their empirical validity.…”

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Measures for Assessing Dynamic Complexity Aspects of Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemes

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Dedene

2000

Conceptual Modeling — ER 2000

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System developers are increasingly realising that the quality of a system must be ensured in the early stages of the development life cycle. It is in this context that a number of quality frameworks for conceptual schemes have been proposed. However, before the quality of a conceptual schema can be improved, it must be assessed. Accordingly, a number of measure suites have been proposed for measuring quality properties of conceptual schemes. In this paper we focus on one particular quality property, i.e. complexity. This property can be described as the mental burden of the persons that must understand, modify, extend, verify, implement, and reuse conceptual schemes. The proposed complexity measures for conceptual schemes have in common that they only capture the complexity of the static or structural aspects of a conceptual schema. We therefore present a complementary suite of measures that focuses on conceptual schema complexity as seen from a dynamic perspective.

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Analogical reuse of structural and behavioural aspects of event-based object-oriented domain models

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Proceedings 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications

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Distance Measures for Information System Reengineering

Cited by 3 publications

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Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models

Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models

Measures for Assessing Dynamic Complexity Aspects of Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemes

Analogical reuse of structural and behavioural aspects of event-based object-oriented domain models

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