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Record W4255533832 · doi:10.1002/0471028959.sof055

Concept of Operations

2002· other· en· W4255533832 on OpenAlexaff
Richard H. Thayer, Per Bjorke

Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia of Software Engineering · 2002
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices
Canadian institutionsActua
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoftware engineeringSoftware requirementsSoftware developmentRequirements elicitationRequirements analysisRequirementSoftware requirements specificationComputer scienceRequirements engineeringSoftware constructionBusiness requirementsSoftware systemSocial software engineeringRequirements managementUser requirements documentSoftwareSystem requirementsSoftware development processSystems engineeringEngineeringBusiness processOperating systemWork in process

Abstract

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Abstract Computer systems programming was first developed by those expected to benefit from the system, i.e., the “users.” Therefore, the need to communicate system “requirements” was minimal. As the computer industry developed, hardware became increasingly more complex, powerful, and extensive, resulting in an increased demand for computer software. Therefore, programming became the purview of separate organizations specializing in software development. It is generally accepted that difficulties in discovering and documenting software requirements has become the major source of software development problems. Software engineering was introduced as a method of applying a more rigorous approach to the development of computer systems. Although software engineering has many facets, the basic components of software engineering were and still are software requirements, software design, implementation ( coding ), and testing . As the field matured, many of the simpler software engineering components became engineering fields in their own right, for example: software requirements engineering, configuration management, software quality assurance, and project management. In turn, software requirements engineering consists of requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, requirements specifications, requirements verification , and requirements management . Software requirements elicitation is the process through which the acquirers (customers, buyers, or users) and suppliers (developers or contractors) of a software system discover, review, articulate, and understand a requirement. Concept of operations ( ConOps ) analysis and the ConOps document are the premier tool of the requirements elicitation procession . Concept analysis and development of a ConOps document helps assists users and acquirers with the clarification of user needs and requirements in addition to easing the problems of communication among users, acquirers, and developers. ConOps provide a bridge from user needs and acquirers requirements to the system development process. Guidelines for concept analysis and development of a ConOps document are presented.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.048

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.015
Scholarly communication0.0120.012
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.003

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.211 · 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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