On a Buzzword

Hierarchical Structure

Team 1
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Bob Hazen, Mike Mangos, Tim
Santucci, Chris Dahn

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Historical Context
1974
No GUIs
No IDEs
Only thing available is code and
imagination.

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Buzzwords
Parnas uses hierarchical structures as
his example
Alone, buzzwords do not convey
information

Remove definition from a technical

explanation

How do buzzwords occur?

Ambiguity Can mean different things to

different people
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Structures
T.H.E. system

Program hierarchy, abstract machines

Haberman hierarchy, work relationship

RC4000

Resource hierarchy

Multics

Access hierarchy, protection hierarchy

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Structure Happens
Intentional
Analytical heuristic

After the fact

How are they useful?

(T.H.E.) Structure is irrelevant to the

machine, only useful to the developers
(RC4000) Structure is relevant to the
operation of the machine, not necessarily
useful to the developers
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Object Oriented Programming

Smalltalk
C++
Java
C?

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Smalltalk
Pure OOP

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C++
Encapsulation
Polymorphism
Inheritance
Friends

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Java
Encapsulation
Polymorphism
Inheritance

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C
Supposedly not OOP
GTK library

button struct used as argument to

generic click() function

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Commercial Off The Shelf

Software
Types of COTS Software

End user applications

System components
Libraries

Beliefs

Management
Developer
End User
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Beliefs: Management
Cheap

Economies of scale
Outsourcing the programming

Reliable

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Beliefs: Developer
More expensive

Learning to work with it

Verify versions of COTS Software

Not always flexible

Buggy binary libraries

Poor documentation

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Beliefs: End User

Expects it to work off the shelf

Compounded SE problems

User may need to provide COTS

Software

Compatibility issues
Web of dependencies
Redhat Linux RPMs

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Moral
Must be clear, concise and intelligent

Buzzwords are inevitable

Okay, in the proper context
Dont take things for granted

Hierarchical structures was holding

back software architecture
Questioning popular modes of
thinking eliminates stale ideas
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Artificial Intelligence
Turing Test
Search Algorithms
Machine Vision

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Turing Test
What is it?

Communication using natural

language

Implementation is variable
Mimics human behavior

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Search Algorithms
Deep Blue vs. Kasparov
Focuses on single best
answer/move
Implementation is specific
Mimics human decision making

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Machine Vision
Face recognition
Focused on pattern recognition
Mimics human visual recognition

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