Concept Dependence Graph

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

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Theory of Conceptual Design for Software
about
Jackson's proposed framework: software design in terms of concepts, purposes, operational principles, and criteria.
Conceptual Design Framework
implements
Jackson's central framework for understanding software design through concepts as building blocks, their purposes, operational principles, and dependence graphs

finding

Style variants (paragraph and character) in word processor; both depend on format concept
supports
Empirical analysis of abstract concept instantiation in word processor design
Post is leaf concept in Facebook; user depends on post; friend depends on user and post
supports
Empirical analysis of concept dependences in social networking application revealing design structure

concept

Concept (software design entity)
associated_with
An increment of functionality consciously introduced by a designer to serve a purpose; the building block of a system's design.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The concept dependence graph defines a family of applications: a subset of concepts is well-formed if it satisfies dependences.claim0.857
Core idea for product families and minimal viable product.
The concept dependence graph can serve as a yardstick to evaluate module dependences in an implementation.claim0.819
Application of concept dependences to assess representation design.
There should be no cycles in the concept dependence graph; mutual dependence suggests a single concept.claim0.794
Sanity check for concept independence.
Conceptconcept0.740
Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design
Concept Algebraframework0.727
Probabilistic framework formalizing concept-specific subspaces for targeted steering in generative models.
concept vectorconcept0.722
Computed directional vector in activation space representing a specific concept, used for injection experiments
Concept (Formal Concept Analysis)concept0.721
concept geometryconcept0.721
The spatial/geometric organization of conceptual structure within neural network representations; central to the paper's thesis.