Concept (software design entity)

An increment of functionality consciously introduced by a designer to serve a purpose; the building block of a system's design.

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Theory of Conceptual Design for Software
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Jackson's proposed framework: software design in terms of concepts, purposes, operational principles, and criteria.

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Concept Dependence Graph
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Method for arranging concepts in a directed graph to show which concepts depend on others and to characterize product families

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Concept
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Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design
Concepts in Software Design
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Software Concepts
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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Concept (Formal Concept Analysis)concept0.841
A concept is a structure that is invented to give a coherent account of the immediate consequences of actions in a complex system.concept0.828
Operational definition of concept.
A concept is a structure invented to give a coherent account of the immediate consequences of actions in a complex system.claim0.826
Jackson's operational definition of a software concept.
Concepts are the building blocks of software systems, objective features of a system’s design.claim0.825
Asserts that concepts are not just mental but concrete design elements.
Conceptual Designconcept0.810
Concept Idiomframework0.805
A reusable concept pattern applicable across contexts, with known purpose and operational principle.
Style Conceptconcept0.795
Formatting concept in word processors and design tools; exemplar of reusable concept idiom appearing in multiple contexts
Concept Erasuremethod0.791
Interpretability method backed by linear representation hypothesis for removing concept information