Atomic Base Structure for Software System Description
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software development methodologies face challenges in efficiently and transparently managing complex software systems, leading to inefficiencies, inconsistencies, and high costs due to inflexible and sequential development management approaches.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for creating a system description using a standardized atomic base structure, where components are self-similar and described using predefined features, aggregation rules, and interdependencies, enabling hierarchical decomposition and automated data processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a complete description of requirements for a complex software system is created in advance, then the system can be assessed prospectively, but the description becomes as complex and expensive as the development itself
Solution Approach 1:
The system description is segmented into standardized atomic base structures (ABS) that represent individual components. Each ABS contains specific attributes (e.g., functionality, resources, constraints) that can be independently described and assessed. This segmentation allows the overall system description to be built from manageable atomic units, reducing the complexity burden while maintaining comprehensive assessment capability.
Solution Approach 2:
A universal standardized atomic base structure is designed that can represent multiple types of software components through a common framework. The ABS uses a set of standardized attributes and relationships that apply across different component types, enabling a single description methodology to handle diverse system elements without requiring separate complex description schemes for each component type.
2Stability of the object's composition
If central sequential development management is used to define all requirements in advance, then coordination is achieved, but the process becomes inflexible and expensive with frequent change processes
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized atomic base structure enables dynamic requirement management by allowing individual atomic components to be independently modified, added, or removed without requiring complete re-description of the entire system. The structured relationships between ABS units maintain coordination stability while permitting localized changes, thus achieving both stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The framework establishes preliminary standardized structures and relationships for requirement description before development begins. These pre-defined atomic base structures provide a stable foundation for coordination, while their modular nature allows efficient incorporation of changes through simple addition or modification of individual atomic units rather than complete re-planning.
3Adaptability or versatility
If decentralized approach is followed in agile software development focusing on individual component development, then flexibility is improved, but complex systems cannot be optimally integrated
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized atomic base structure implements a nested hierarchical organization where individual component descriptions (atomic ABS) are nested within subsystem descriptions, which are in turn nested within the overall system description. This nesting structure allows decentralized development of individual components while maintaining automatic consistency and integration quality through the standardized hierarchical framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The structured atomic base structure provides automated feedback mechanisms through its standardized relationships and constraints. When individual components are developed or modified, the framework automatically checks for consistency with overall system requirements and integrates changes systematically, ensuring integration quality without requiring centralized coordination of every detail.
4Adaptability or versatility
If later corrections or subsequent design changes are made in software development, then adaptability is achieved, but inconsistency and quality reductions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized atomic base structure establishes preliminary standardized templates and relationship definitions before development begins. These pre-defined structures ensure that any subsequent design changes or corrections are made within a consistent framework, preventing inconsistency while maintaining adaptability for necessary modifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The framework allows systematic parameter changes within the standardized atomic base structure. Each atomic component has defined parameters and attributes that can be modified according to standardized rules, ensuring that design changes maintain consistency with the overall system architecture and quality requirements while still enabling necessary adaptability.
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Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for system description. An example method includes: forming a standardized structure for describing components, including a predefined set of features, aggregation rules, and interdependencies; editing the description, dividing individual components and subcomponents into the structure, and describing them, wherein the descriptions then form the hierarchical system description by definition and combination; receiving information from other software modules for sorting, wherein a semantic description is given of how, when, and which data is to be taken from which software module or data repository; analyzing the components using a recursive algorithm and deriving the characteristic values required; generating analysis results for the knowledge level of the system to be described; and transmitting output of system description data in preset formats in accordance with specified rules.