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- Subject: SCHEMA DESIGN FOR ECMA PCTE TUTORIAL
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- SCHEMA DESIGN FOR ECMA PCTE
- A Tutorial on Schema Design for PCTE
-
- Offered by Software Design & Analysis, Inc.
-
- 14-16 September 1992
- Hyatt Regency, Reston, Virginia
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- The PCTE (Portable Common Tool Environment) interface defines a set
- of services to facilitate the construction of CASE tools and soft-
- ware engineering environments. The services have been designed to
- be scalable, independent of the language in which the tools are
- written, evolvable, and implementable on local area networks.
-
- The European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) accepted the
- PCTE interface definition in December as ECMA Standard 149. C and
- Ada language bindings of the interface have subsequently also been
- accepted as ECMA standards.
-
- The PCTE interface is gaining widespread acceptance within the
- platform, CASE tool, and software development environment com-
- munities.
-
- The PCTE interface includes object management services that support
- data definition and management for a software engineering environ-
- ment. Tool builders and environment builders use these services
- when designing tools and constructing environments.
-
- INTENDED AUDIENCE
-
- This three day program is intended for people who are designing
- PCTE-based tools and/or environments. It teaches a method for
- schema design for the ECMA PCTE Object Management System, using
- a mixture of lectures and practical classes. The schema design
- method demonstrates the strong influence of the software process
- on schema design, and will also interest software process design-
- ers. Much of the tutorial is relevant to the design of schemas
- for other sophisticated repository systems for software engineering
- environments. The tutorial assumes some level of familiarity with
- PCTE concepts.
-
- OUTLINE
-
- I. An Overview of the Schema Design Method
- An introduction to the schema design problem and a specific
- method for solving this problem.
-
- II. Conceptual Design
-
- Discussion of the method's first step: development of a con-
- ceptual data model - expressed using concepts of Entity-
- Relationship-Attribute modeling but independent of its im-
- plementation in a specific database model - and an associated
- functional model.
-
- III. Logical Design for the PCTE Object Management System
-
- Discussion of the method's second step: conversion of the
- conceptual data model to a PCTE Object Management System data
- model, with special attention to the access control, concur-
- rency control, and versioning.
-
- IV. Decomposing the Schema into Schema Definition Sets
-
- Discussion of the method's third step: decomposition of the
- data model into Schema Definition Sets to account for tool
- functionality, views and permissible operations, and object
- base structures.
-
- V. Review and Validation of Schemas
-
- Discussion of the method's fourth step: validating and
- evaluating the schemas.
-
- VI. Documenting Schemas
-
- Discussion of the method's final step: description of the data
- model's details and content as well as the rationale underlie-
- ing its structure.
-
- VII. Question and Answer Period
-
- Open question and answer period.
-
- The lectures are supplemented with exercises to provide experience
- in using the schema design method.
-
- REGISTRATION
-
- Registration is limited to provide high quality educational experience. Registration information and forms follow.
-
- SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE....
-
- Ian Thomas works on environment framework and integration projects
- at Software Design & Analysis, Inc. His previous work at Hewlett-
- Packard's Software Engineering Systems Division and Bull's Corp-
- orate Research Center involved a number of projects that built in-
- tegrated tool sets on the PCTE interfaces. His current technical
- activities emphasize environment frameworks, environment integra-
- tion technology, software process support, and software engineering
- database issues.
-
- Christian Bremeau also works on environment framework and integra-
- tion projects at Software Design and Analysis, Inc. During his pre-
- vious work at GIE Emeraude, he was a member of the PCTE+ design team
- and one of the architects of the Emeraude implementation of PCTE+.
- More recently, he has been guiding the Ada bindings for PCTE
- through the ECMA standardization process. His technical activities
- involve environment framework design and the use of framework
- technology in the construction of environments.
-
- TRAVEL AND LODGING
-
- The tutorial will be held at:
-
- Hyatt Regency Reston
- 1800 Presidents Street
- Reston, Virginia 22090
- 1 (703) 709-1234
-
- Please contact the Hyatt Regency Reston for room reservations and
- reference RSDA/Schema SeminarS.
-
- The Hyatt Regency Reston is serviced by Dulles Airport. The hotel
- offers free shuttle service from the airport between 6:00 a.m. and
- 10:00 p.m. Please call SDA Inc. for more information regarding
- hotel reservations and travel arrangements.
-
- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
-
- Mark Kissman, SDA Inc.
- +1 (303) 444-9100 (voice)
- +1 (303) 938-5005 (fax)
- email: kissman@sda.com
-
- REGISTRATION FORM
-
- Name ______________________________
- Affiliation ______________________________
- Mail Code ______________________________
- Street ______________________________
- ______________________________
- City ______________________________
- State, ZIP ______________________________
- Country ______________________________
- Telephone (____)________________________
-
- FEES
-
- Advance Registration $1450.00
- Registration after 25 October $1550.00
- Per person fee for two or
- more people from the same
- organization $1350.00
-
- AMOUNT ENCLOSED $_______
-
- Registrations not accompanied by payment will hold space in the
- program for two weeks. Payment must be received by the end of this
- two-week period to guarantee space at the tutorial.
-
- Sorry, but credit card charges, foreign currency checks and PO's
- cannot be accepted.
-
- CANCELLATION POLICY
-
- Cancellations received two weeks prior to 1 September 1992 will
- receive a full refund minus a $50.00 administrative fee.
-
- Cancellations will not be accepted after 1 September 1992.
- Personnel from the same company may, however, be
- substituted.
-
- SEND COMPLETED FORM AND PAYMENT TO:
-
- PCTE Tutorial
- Software Design & Analysis Inc.
- 1113 Spruce Street
- Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA
-