Object-oriented software engineering
Object-oriented software engineering
Object-oriented analysis and design
Object-oriented analysis and design
Building and maintaining analysis-level class hierarchies using Galois Lattices
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Reengineering of configurations based on mathematical concept analysis
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Assessing modular structure of legacy code based on mathematical concept analysis
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Design of class hierarchies based on concept (Galois) lattices
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue high availability in CORBA
Understanding class hierarchies using concept analysis
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Object-Oriented Software Construction
Object-Oriented Software Construction
A Controlled Language to Assist Conversion of Use Case Descriptions into Concept Lattices
AI '02 Proceedings of the 15th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
A User Centered Approach to Requirements Modeling
Modellierung 2002 Modellierung in der Praxis - Modellierung für die Praxis
iO2 - An Algorithmic Method for Building Inheritance Graphs in Object Database Design
ER '96 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
EWSPT '96 Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Debugging temporal specifications with concept analysis
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Specification-based Browsing of Software Component Libraries
ASE '98 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has shown its benefits in many application areas – including the field of Software Engineering. In general, FCA can successfully be used in almost all phases of the software life cycle. Several applications deal with software architecture, modularisation, program/code and configuration analysis while the early phases of the software life cycle – including requirements analysis, domain and system modelling – have not been considered to the same extent so far. This article focuses on the use of FCA during the early phases of software development. First of all, the software life cycle and the importance of concepts – in particular for object oriented modelling (OOM) – are discussed. In principle, FCA can be used wherever concepts play a significant role in the software process. Reported work in this area focuses on requirements engineering (RE), use case analysis (UCA), object-oriented modelling, the analysis of class/object hierarchies and component retrieval. As a typical application, the task of finding or deriving class candidates from a given use case description is considered in more detail. FCA offers valuable support to bridge this well-known gap existing in almost all OO methods. FCA allows a “crossing of perspectives” – between the functional view represented by the use cases and the data view implied by the “things” occurring there. Finally, future perspectives for using FCA as an encompassing tool supporting major parts of the software process are discussed. Such an approach might open a new vision on a thorough concept-based software engineering process.