A survey of software design techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The practical guide to structured systems design: 2nd edition
The practical guide to structured systems design: 2nd edition
Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design
Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Automatic transformation from data flow diagram to structure chart
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A knowledge-based method for inferring semantic concepts from visual models of system behavior
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Knowledge-Based Automation of a Design Method for Concurrent Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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The authors describe an expert system, the Specification-Transformation Expert System (STES), which is to translate requirements specifications into design specifications automatically during the development phase of the software life cycle. STES accepts as input a software-requirements specification expressed in terms of dataflow diagrams. Using rules that embody a structured design methodology, STES translates this specification into a template describing a structure chart. STES consist of a knowledge base and an inference engine. The knowledge base contains information on the structured-design methodology and heuristic guidelines to help determine when certain methods should be applied. Given a target software system's requirements specification, the STES inference engine can perform intelligent decision-making and determine a suitable architectural design specification for the software system being designed. STES was originally implemented in OPS5 on a VAX11/780 computer. It has since been ported to an Apollo DN 3000 workstation and integrated with a commercial CASE tool.