Use of the Concept of Transparency in the Design of Hierarchically Structured Systems

Abstract

The paper deals with the design of hierarchically structured programing systems. It develops a method for evaluating the cost of requiring programmers to work with an abstraction of a real machine. A number of examples from hardward and software are given as illustrations of the method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0753694

Entities

People

  • D. L. Parnas
  • D. P. Siewiorek

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Addressing
  • Air Force
  • Computational Processes
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Economics
  • Language
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Machine Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Specifications
  • Virtual Machines

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Computer Science.
  • Software Engineering.