Promoting Productivity by Propagating the Practice of “Plug-Compatible” Programming
Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: Information needs of health care professionals or managers include the ability to “horizontally integrate” a variety of data and knowledge access and manipulation tasks, to support their problem solving, decision making, and educational activities. This introduces a complexity into application environments not present in more traditional, vertical, task-oriented applications. As a consequence, applications are facing new demands to draw upon and utilize externally developed data and knowledge resources and tools in a consistent fashion, and to support human interface paradigms suited to the particular needs of the user. To enable these capabilities requires (a) partitioning of information requirements into their component data and knowledge access and manipulation tasks; and (b) environments for combining these into problem-focused applications. This has created a need for software engineering practices that (a) facilitate separate development, maintenance and update of data and knowledge resources and tools, and (b) compositional methods for supporting particular views, organizations, or uses of these data and knowledge resources. Such capabilities are becoming available, and have major implications, not only for application development but for group, collaborative work.
Source: PubMed Central
Author: Robert A. Greenes
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2321424200