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The Domain Theory

Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

By: Alistair Sutcliffe,A.G. Sutcliffe

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The Domain Theory

Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

By: Alistair Sutcliffe,A.G. Sutcliffe

Is this book about patterns? Yes and no. It is about software reuse and representation of knowledge that can be reapplied in similar situations; however, it does not follow the classic Alexandine conventions of the patterns community--i.e. Problem- solution- forces- context- example, etc. Chapter 6 on claims comes close to classic patterns, and the whole book can be viewed as a patterns language of abstract models for software engineering and HCI. So what sort of patterns does it contain? Specifications, conceptual models, design advice, but sorry not code. Plenty of other C++ code pattern books (see PLOP series). Nearest relative in published patterns books are Fowler's (1995) Analysis Patterns: Reusable object models and Coad, North and Mayfield. What do you mean by a Domain Theory? Not domains in the abstract mathematical sense, but domains in the knowledge--natural language sense, close to the everyday meaning when we talk about the application domain of a computer system, such as car rental, satellite tracking, whatever. The book is an attempt to answer the question ' what are the abstractions behind car rental, satellite tracking' so good design solutions for those problems can be reused. I work in industry, so what's in it for me? A new way of looking at software reuse, ideas for organizing a software and knowledge reuse program, new processes for reusing knowledge in requirements analysis, conceptual modeling and software specification. I am an academic, should I be interested? Yes if your research involves software engineering, reuse, requirements engineering, human computer interaction, knowledge engineering, ontologies and knowledge management. For teaching it may be useful for Master courses on reuse, requirements and knowledge engineering. More generally if you are interested in exploring what the concept of abstraction is when you extend it beyond programming languages, formal specification, abstract data types, etc towards requirements and domain knowledge. ADDITIONAL COPY: Based on more than 10 years of research by the author, this book is about putting software reuse on a firmer footing. Utilizing a multidisciplinary perspective--psychology and management science, as well as software--it describes the Domain Theory as a solution. The domain theory provides an abstract theory that defines a generic, reusable model of domain knowledge. Providing a comprehensive library of reusable models, practice methods for reuse, and theoretical insight, this book: *introduces the subject area of reuse and software engineering and explains a framework for comparing different reuse approaches; *develops a metric-oriented framework to assess the reuse claims of three competing approaches: patterns, ERPs, and the Domain Theory OSMs (object system models); *explains the psychological background for reuse and describes generic tasks and meta-domains; *introduces claims that provide a representation of design knowledge attached to Domain Theory models, as well as being a schema for representing reusable knowledge in nearly any form; *reports research that resulted from the convergence of the two theories; *describes the methods, techniques, and guidelines of design for reuse--the process of abstraction; and *elaborates the framework to investigate the future of reuse by different paradigms, generation of applications from requirements languages, and component-based software engineering via reuse libraries.

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CRC Press

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0805839518

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Human-Computer Interface Design

By: A.G. Sutcliffe

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Human-Computer Interface Design

By: A.G. Sutcliffe

A description of the principles of and practices in human-computer interfacing, based on applied psychology, while integrating the approach with methods of software engineering. Tasks analysis, command language grammar, display and control interfaces and interface evaluation are examined.

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1349196185

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Urban Regimes and Strategies

Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels

By: A. G. Papadopoulos

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Urban Regimes and Strategies

Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels

By: A. G. Papadopoulos

If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of local residents and businesses, how would that city change? Alex G. Papadopoulos addresses this question with a detailed study of how the nineteenth-century quartiers of Leopold and Nord-Est in Brussels have been transformed materially and functionally since the European Communities decided to locate their administrative headquarters there in 1957. Drawing on game and rational-choice theories, spatial analysis, and urban morphology studies, Papadopoulos analyzes how the landscape of Brussels's center has evolved over the last three decades under the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites. He describes how international real-estate developers form ephemeral, flexible, and specialized regimes of cooperation with governmental organizations at all levels and with special-interest lobbies to carry out major urban projects, while local neighborhood groups, conservationists, and political factions such as the Green Party oppose them with qualitatively similar regimes of resistance.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226645592

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9780226645599

A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.

From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia

By: A. G. Findlay

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A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.

From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia

By: A. G. Findlay

First published in 1851, this two-volume work is a comprehensive nautical directory of the coastlines and islands of the Pacific.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108059732

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British Imperialism

1688-2015

By: P.J. Cain,A. G. Hopkins

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British Imperialism

1688-2015

By: P.J. Cain,A. G. Hopkins

A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of 'gentlemanly capitalism', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and how these ties were undone to produce the post-colonial world of today. Containing a significantly expanded and updated Foreword and Afterword, this third edition assesses the development of the debate since the book’s original publication, discusses the imperial era in the context of the controversy over globalization, and shows how the study of the age of empires remains relevant to understanding the post-colonial world. Covering the full extent of the British empire from China to South America and taking a broad chronological view from the seventeenth century to post-imperial Britain today, British Imperialism: 1688–2015 is the perfect read for all students of imperial and global history.

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Routledge

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1317389247

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American Empire

A Global History

By: A. G. Hopkins

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American Empire

A Global History

By: A. G. Hopkins

Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.

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Princeton University Press

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0691196877

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Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Electronics

By: A. G. Milnes

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Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Electronics

By: A. G. Milnes

For some time there has been a need for a semiconductor device book that carries diode and transistor theory beyond an introductory level and yet has space to touch on a wider range of semiconductor device principles and applica tions. Such topics are covered in specialized monographs numbering many hun dreds, but the voluminous nature of this literature limits access for students. This book is the outcome of attempts to develop a broad course on devices and integrated electronics for university students at about senior-year level. The edu cational prerequisites are an introductory course in semiconductor junction and transistor concepts, and a course on analog and digital circuits that has intro duced the concepts of rectification, amplification, oscillators, modulation and logic and SWitching circuits. The book should also be of value to professional engineers and physicists because of both, the information included and the de tailed guide to the literature given by the references. The aim has been to bring some measure of order into the subject area examined and to provide a basic structure from which teachers may develop themes that are of most interest to students and themselves. Semiconductor devices and integrated circuits are reviewed and fundamental factors that control power levels, frequency, speed, size and cost are discussed. The text also briefly mentions how devices are used and presents circuits and comments on representative applications. Thus, the book seeks a balance be tween the extremes of device physics and circuit design.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401170215

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Kinetics of Inorganic Reactions

The Commonwealth and International Library: Chemistry Division

By: A. G. Sykes

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Kinetics of Inorganic Reactions

The Commonwealth and International Library: Chemistry Division

By: A. G. Sykes

Kinetics of Inorganic Reactions provides a comprehensive account of the mechanisms of inorganic reaction. The book is comprised of 15 chapters that deal with the two main fields of inorganic reaction, the homogeneous gas-phase reactions and solution reactions. The first chapter of the text provides an introduction to some of the basic concepts in inorganic reaction, which include the mechanisms of a reaction, reactions in different phases, and the feasibilities of a reaction. Next, the book details the experimental techniques and treatment of data. The next series of chapters talks about gas-phase reactions. The book also dedicates a chapter in covering various types of reactions, including isotopic reaction and redox reaction. Chapters 12 to 14 deal with substitution reactions, while Chapter 15 talks about acid-base reactions. The text will be most useful to chemists and chemical engineers, particularly those who deal with inorganic chemistry.

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Elsevier

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1483185672

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Africa, Empire and World Disorder

Historical Essays

By: A. G. Hopkins

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Africa, Empire and World Disorder

Historical Essays

By: A. G. Hopkins

This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution that has led to the writing of non-Western indigenous history; the revitalization of new types of imperial history; the now ubiquitous engagement with global history, including a reinterpretation of American Empire, and the current revival of economic history after several decades of neglect.

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100016652X

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Revival

Spiritual Awakening in the Reformed Tradition

By: Michael A. G. Haykin

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Revival

Spiritual Awakening in the Reformed Tradition

By: Michael A. G. Haykin

Historian Michael Haykin stokes a passion for revival by investigating the history of spiritual renewal in the Reformed tradition. After examining the Holy Spirit’s outpourings during the Reformation and English Puritanism, Haykin focuses on two remarkable moments of renewal in the eighteenth century: the Great Awakening and the revival of the Particular Baptists in the British and Irish islands. By looking back at revivals from the past, we can develop a biblical framework for expectant prayer for revival in our day.

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Reformation Heritage Books

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Interstices

Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg

By: A. G. Rigg,Anne Hudson

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Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg

By: A. G. Rigg,Anne Hudson

Breaking new ground in interdisciplinary scholarship of late medieval England, this collection of essays celebrates and addresses the work of renowned medieval scholar A.G. Rigg. George Rigg's interests span medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English literature and philology; the contributors to this volume are an international group of colleagues, students, and friends of Rigg's, whose essays are as wide-ranging as Rigg's own interests. The contributions include: new editions of Middle English texts; an overview of the editions of Chaucer from the nineteenth century to the present which expounds editorial trends through the years; studies of major Middle English writings which cross boundaries into social history and the history of the book; a codicological study of the literary and material evidence for the use of scientific and utilitarian texts in late medieval English manuscripts; and related historical studies. Each essay is anchored in the textual realities that grounded Rigg's own scholarship, and bridge the boundaries between traditional academic disciplines - a crossing of interstices in homage to a teacher, friend, and colleague.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802087434

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9780802087430

Minerals of Britain and Ireland

By: A.G. Tindle

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Minerals of Britain and Ireland

By: A.G. Tindle

Minerals of Britain and Ireland is a completely comprehensive treatment of the minerals found in Britain, Ireland and the surrounding islands.

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Liverpool University Press

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1780466854

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The Domain Theory

Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

By: Alistair Sutcliffe,A.G. Sutcliffe

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The Domain Theory

Patterns for Knowledge and Software Reuse

By: Alistair Sutcliffe,A.G. Sutcliffe

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CRC Press

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Human-Computer Interface Design

By: A.G. Sutcliffe

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One Heart and One Soul

John Sutcliff of Olney, His Friends and His Times

By: Michael A. G. Haykin

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One Heart and One Soul

John Sutcliff of Olney, His Friends and His Times

By: Michael A. G. Haykin

The story of William Carey and his ministry in the Indian sub-continent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has been told and retold many times. It captured the imagination of untold numbers of evangelicals in his own day, sparked the formation of a host of missionary societies and generally initiated what has been termed the modern missionary movement. What is often forgotten, however, is that Carey did not set out alone, nor would his ministry or that of his colleagues in India have been possible without the faithful support over many years of a circle of friends back at home. As one of these men later recalled, when they contemplated the possibility of a mission to India they thought of it in terms of a gold-mine. Carey said that he was prepared to 'venture to go down' the mine to explore its possibilities but, he told his close friends, Andrew Fuller, John Sutcliff and John Ryland, they 'must hold the ropes'. This book is a tribute to that circle of loyal friends, who saw themselves as being so closely bound together that they were all 'of one heart and one soul', and in particular to one of them, John Sutcliff, the pastor of the church at Olney which originally set apart Carey for the ministry. As well as remaining a lifelong friend of Carey, he was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society, one of the joint authors of the Prayer Call which initially led to the interest in overseas missions and a faithful pastor and teacher in whose home many candidates for the ministry, both at home or abroad, received valuable training for the work to which they were called. Michael Haykin is Principal of Toronto Baptist Seminary in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aSenior Fellow of The Jonathan Edwards Centre for Reformed Spirituality. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Church History at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Eusebeia: the Bulletin of the Jonathan Edwards Centre for Reformed Spirituality. He is married with two children.

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EP BOOKS

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0852343264

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The Domain Theory

The Domain Theory

Human-Computer Interface Design

Human-Computer Interface Design

Urban Regimes and Strategies

Urban Regimes and Strategies

A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.

A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.

British Imperialism

British Imperialism

American Empire

American Empire

Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Electronics

Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Electronics

Kinetics of Inorganic Reactions

Kinetics of Inorganic Reactions

Africa, Empire and World Disorder

Africa, Empire and World Disorder

Revival

Revival

Interstices

Interstices

Minerals of Britain and Ireland

Minerals of Britain and Ireland

The Domain Theory

The Domain Theory

Human-Computer Interface Design

Human-Computer Interface Design

One Heart and One Soul

One Heart and One Soul

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