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Record W4252928984 · doi:10.1002/0471028959.sof002

Abstraction

2002· other· en· W4252928984 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia of Software Engineering · 2002
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Canadian institutionsLockheed Martin (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAbstractionComputer scienceProgramming languageAdjectiveContext (archaeology)NounArtificial intelligenceTheoretical computer scienceEpistemology

Abstract

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Abstract The word abstraction is used as a noun, “to build an abstraction.” Its root form, abstract , is used as a verb, “to abstract the requirements to perform a domain analysis” or as an adjective, “a linked list is an abstract concept.” From the software engineering perspective, all of these uses refer to the concept of identifying essential properties while simultaneously eliminating nonessential properties. An abstraction intentionally ignores some qualities, attributes, or functions to focus attention on others. It is a summary; it covers the high points and leaves out the details. An abstraction omits all the pieces of the system that are not necessary for understanding the system at a given level of detail. The abstraction includes only the relevant aspects of the object. The selection of what to include and what to exclude in a good abstraction is based on knowledge of the problem, the needs of the moment, and experience. A proper combination of these considerations leads to a good abstraction. The purpose of creating abstractions is to concentrate on one aspect of the problem and to preclude distraction by other parts of the problem. Level of abstraction is a quality that deals with the amount of detail in this view of a system. The process of abstraction has also been referred to as chunking. In this context, one abstraction represents one chunk of information. Encapsulation is the process of separating and hiding the external (user's) view of an abstraction from the internal (implementer's) view of the abstraction. There are three fundamental abstractions in terms of which all software can be described. A complete design must include all three. They are data, function, and process. These are discussed.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.484
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.217 · 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