Issues in designing an information model for application development

  • Authors:
  • Gary H. Sockut;Helen P. Arzu;Robert W. Matthews;David E. Shough

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, P. O. Box 40023, San Jose, CA;IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, P. O. Box 40023, San Jose, CA;IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, P. O. Box 40023, San Jose, CA;IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, P. O. Box 40023, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

IBM's object-oriented information model lets a customer share data among various tools for application development. This paper discusses several issues in designing the information model, namely (1) techniques for diagrams (an essential part of communication between an information model designer and other designers or tool writers), (2) organization of the design of the information model (an essential step when many designers design anything large), and (3) technical content. These discussions of the experience of designing the information model should be valuable for further design of the information model and for other design efforts, e.g., involving other models or other integration of tools.