CAREER: Toward a Scientific Basis for the design of Integrated Systems

职业：为集成系统设计奠定科学基础

• 批准号: 9502029
• 负责人: Kevin Sullivan
• 金额: $ 12.87万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9502029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Toward; Scientific; Basis; design

The broad objective of this CAREER project is to help cement the status of software engineering as a discipline that uses models, methods, and mechanisms based on generalizable scientific knowledge. The research component of this project addresses three important problems in software design. The mediator method is an approach to design in which the behavioral relationships needed to integrate independent behaviors are separately identified and represented as objects external to the objects representing those behaviors. Externalizing relationships as mediators depends in turn on a careful application of both explicit and implicit invocation mechanisms. The first research focus is an attempt to improve scientific foundations for software design, scientifically testing the claim that common methods for designing integrated systems are poorer than the mediator method with respect to ease of evolution of integration requirements. Second is the exploration, through pilot projects, of using the mediator method to aid the design of distributed systems. Third is the investigation of a new approach to helping designers balance multiple objectives as software designs evolve. An environment that reflects how well a design meets each of several objectives by depicting divergences of the design from each of several a models, where each model is defined by the designer as good with respect to one particular objective. The teaching focus is intended to develop engineers who understand software design to be a multi-objective, risky activity, done with incomplete information and thus demanding creativity and reflective, rigorous, risk-reducing methods. To help students understand how to manage the complexity and risk of real software systems, courses focus on realistic development projects, such as a mobile robot system.

这个CAREER项目的广泛目标是帮助巩固软件工程作为一门学科的地位，该学科使用基于可推广的科学知识的模型，方法和机制。 该项目的研究部分解决了软件设计中的三个重要问题。中介方法是一种方法， 设计中需要整合的行为关系 独立的行为被分别识别和表示 作为表示这些行为的对象的外部对象。 反过来，将关系外部化为中介取决于 关于显式和隐式调用的谨慎应用 机制等 第一个研究重点是试图提高软件设计的科学基础，科学地测试声称，设计集成系统的常用方法比调解人的方法更差的集成要求的演变容易。 第二是探索，通过试点， 使用中介器方法来帮助设计分布式系统。 第三是调查一种新的方法，以帮助设计师平衡多个目标，软件设计的发展。一个 环境，反映了设计如何满足几个 通过描绘来自若干模型中的每一个的设计的分歧来实现目标，其中每个模型由设计者定义为关于一个特定目标是好的。 教学重点旨在培养工程师谁理解软件设计是一个多目标，风险活动，完成不完整的信息，从而要求创造力和反思，严谨，降低风险的方法。 为了帮助学生了解如何管理真实的软件系统的复杂性和风险，课程侧重于现实的开发项目，如移动的机器人系统。