Accession Number:

ADA276589

Title:

Beyond the Read-Eval Loop: The Artifacts System

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

SOFTWARE OPTIONS INC CAMBRIDGE MA

Personal Author(s):

• Karr, Mike

Report Date:

1994-02-14

Pagination or Media Count:

19.0

Abstract:

The purpose of the Artifacts System is to structure complex, evolving data, to assist users in their cooperative effort to develop such data, and to integrate the tools that operate on and produce this data. A key element in the design is to eliminate what is the usual interaction with a computer-based system run a tool to achieve a desired effect. Rather, users of the Artifacts System set up structures that indicate desired results and browse these structures in hypertext-like fashion tool invocation is usually implicit. Version and configuration management is an integral part of the system, not a facility on the side.

Descriptors:

• *INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• *MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE
• *ARTIFACTS
• CONTROL
• MANAGEMENT
• INTERACTIONS
• CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
• TOOLS
• COMPUTERS
• INTEGRALS
• INTEGRATION
• CONFIGURATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE