NelleN: A framework for literate data modelling
Michel Léonard, Ian Prince · Notes on numerical fluid mechanics and multidisciplinary design · 1992
The literate data modelling paradigm provides a basis for structuring, justifying, and documenting the data modelling process. The paradigm is based on deliberation schemas consisting of issues, positions, and arguments. Deliberation schemas provide both a default argumentation space for decision-taking and a structure for recording the rationale once a decision is taken. An extendable class-based implementation framework, NelleN, provides a foundation for complementing a CASE-tool data dictionary with deliberation schemas. The framework consists of algorithm, deliberation schema and deliberation triggering classes. A subclassing mechanism is used for extending the framework. A small prototype demonstrates the type of CASE-tool that may be implemented using the framework. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.