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N Degrees of Separation: Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns (1999)
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| Venue: | IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING |
| Citations: | 520 - 8 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Tarr99ndegrees,
author = {Peri Tarr and Harold Ossher and William Harrison and Stanley M. Sutton and Jr.},
title = {N Degrees of Separation: Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
year = {1999},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
Done well, separation of concerns can provide many software engineering benefits, including reduced complexity, improved reusability, and simpler evolution. The choice of boundaries for separate concerns depends on both requirements on the system and on the kind(s) of decomposition and composition a given formalism supports. The predominant methodologies and formalisms available, however, support only orthogonal separations of concerns, along single dimensions of composition and decomposition. These characteristics lead to a number of well-known and difficult problems. This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling and implementing software artifacts, one that permits separation of overlapping concerns along multiple dimensions of composition and decomposition. This approach addresses numerous problems throughout the software lifecycle in achieving well-engineered, evolvable, flexible software artifacts and traceability across artifacts.
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multi-dimensional separation many software engineering benefit orthogonal separation numerous problem single dimension software lifecycle separate concern multiple dimension flexible software artifact predominant methodology decompositionand composition formalism support software artifact difficult problem new paradigm
