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Interacting with an active, integrated environment

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Thomas Rodden,

Pete Sawyer,

Ian SommervilleAuthors Info & Claims

SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

Pages 76 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/64135.65011

Published: 03 November 1988 Publication History

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Software engineering environments are intended to provide a cohesive and integrated set of tools to support the process of software engineering with much current research into environment design focussed on maximising the degree to which these tools can be integrated. This paper describes the architecture of a prototype environment which attempts to achieve a high degree of integration using techniques drawn from artificial intelligence, office automation and object-oriented programming. This environment is implemented as a federation of intelligent, co-operating agents which communicate, with each other and with users, by message passing. This paper is particularly concerned with user interface integration including the mechanisms employed to permit inter-agent and agent-user communications.

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Reviewer: Horst Remus

The 1960s brought us operating systems (environments), the 1970s produced program development (software engineering) environments, and the 1980s gave us application enabling (integrated project support) environments. The paper deals with the latter; it describes a support enviroment from early steps in the life cycle, such as requirements or initial specifications, through maintenance. The basic model is an integration of human and software agents to provide a consistent external interface. The authors claim “a high degree of integration using techniques drawn from artificial intelligence, office automation and object-oriented programming.” As in office automation, any agent may call upon any other agent to perform a task by sending it a message. Knowledge is held as objects. Tasks which currently require a human to perform may be handled by computer agents in the future. The paper describes techniques and details behind the above statements. A first demonstrator version was supposedly completed in 1988. The approach is interesting although the example given (scheduling meetings) hardly justifies the use of the term “knowledge base” or “artificial intelligence.”

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SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

January 1989

257 pages

ISBN:089791290X

DOI:10.1145/64135

Editor:
Peter Henderson
SUNY, Stonybrook, NY

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 13, Issue 5
Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
November 1988
257 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/64137
Editor:
Peter Henderson
SUNY, Stonybrook, NY
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 2
Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
Feb. 1989
257 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/64140
Editor:
Peter Henderson
State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook
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