An Object Oriented Design and Implementation of the IDEF₀ Essential Data Model Using AdA and an AdA Based Expert System

Author

Terry L. Kitchen

Date of Award

12-1990

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Computer Science

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Gary B. Lamont, PhD

Second Advisor

Robert Hammell, Captain, USAF

Abstract

This thesis develops and implements an Ada based object oriented design (OOD) of the IDEF₀ Essential Data Model called the Essential Subsystem, which includes an Ada based expert system for IDEF₀ model syntax checking. IDEF₀ is a graphic approach to system description development by SofTech, Inc. for the U.S. Air Force Program for Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) and is a subset of the Structured Analysis (SA) language (30, 36). The IDEF₀ Essential Data Model is an entity-relationship (E-R) model of the IDEF₀ language and represents the fundamental (essential) information of an IDEF₀ model. The Essential Subsystem is so named because of its intended use as a subsystem for integration with the Ada based, IDEF₀ CASE tool, SAtool II, that is under concurrent development. The development of SAtool II is part of ongoing research at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), with the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), on the use of the IDEF₀ as a software requirements modeling methodology.

AFIT Designator

AIT-GCS-ENG-90D-07

DTIC Accession Number

ADA230814

Comments

Plain-text title form: An Object Oriented Design and Implementation of the IDEF sub 0 Essential Data Model Using AdA and an AdA Based Expert System

Recommended Citation

Kitchen, Terry L., "An Object Oriented Design and Implementation of the IDEF₀ Essential Data Model Using AdA and an AdA Based Expert System" (1990). Theses and Dissertations. 7930.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/7930