Towards Evolvable Documents with a Conceptualization-Based Case Study

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Towards Evolvable Documents with a Conceptualization-Based Case Study

Original language description

Documents surround us in our everyday lives and affect us even without noticing it. Information technology brought an evolution to documents in terms of flexibility and efficiency in their composing, processing, and sharing. However, in these days, an electronic document lacks the evolvability and reusability of its parts. Maintaining the consistency across one or even several documents and their versions makes it a very complicated task. We encounter a similar problem in the software development domain where, however, effective principles and techniques have been developed and adopted. Incorporating modularity, design patterns, loose coupling, separation of concerns, and other principles are being successfully applied to achieve evolvability. Results are proven in decades by scientific research and countless practical applications. Hypothetically, such principles may be used also for documents in order to achieve reliable and easy-to-maintain documents. This paper presents our generic conceptualization leading to evolvable documents and which is applicable in any documentation domain based on related work in the electronic documents, as well as the evolvable software development domains. Advantages and core ideas of our conceptualization are then demonstrated in a case study - prototype design of OntoUML modelling language documentation. Finally, possible next steps for generic evolvable documents are proposed, as we perceive our contribution as the first step in the journey towards evolvable documents in the scientific point of view. The results from this paper can be used for further research and as the first boilerplate for designing custom evolvable documentation.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems

ISSN

1942-2679

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3&4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

212-223

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