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Record W2497842665 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511550881.010

REFINING SKILLS FOR EXPRESSIVE CONCEPTUAL MODELS

2000· book-chapter· en· W2497842665 on OpenAlexaff
Craig Larman

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2000
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRefining (metallurgy)JavaComputer scienceObject (grammar)Software engineeringProgramming languageConceptual modelArtificial intelligenceDatabaseChemistry

Abstract

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F or those who are just joining us, welcome! We are exploring common and useful object-oriented analysis and design modeling activities that ultimately lead to the creation of a system implemented in Java. By definition, because analysis focuses on investigation of the problem space, the analysis models do not directly relate to Java. However, as we move on to design, we will explore more Java-related issues that impact the design of the architecture and software classes. When diagrams are used, we illustrate them in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation. However, this is not a column about the UML (which is “simply” a useful, standard diagramming notation—no small feat), rather it is a column about skills and heuristics in analysis and design, which is a more critical concern than notation. My usual disclaimer applies: modeling and diagramming should practically aid the development of “better” software—better in meeting the desires of the client or in being easier to change and extend. If it doesn't, question its value. In our last column on conceptual (or domain object) models (see “The Conceptual Model—What's the Object?,” Java Report , Vol. 3, No. 10) we focused on the fundamentals of this classic object-oriented analysis model: identifying concepts, attributes, and associations. It is not a picture of software components or classes; it is an analysis-oriented set of diagrams that depict abstractions of things of interest in the problem domain.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.072
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.070

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.072
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.007
Scholarly communication0.0080.028
Open science0.0030.013
Research integrity0.0020.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.051
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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