Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling

The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) is a collection of software tools to present specifications of software systems in the form of diagrams, tables, trees, and the like. TCM offers editors for techniques used in Structured Analysis as well as editors for object-oriented (UML) techniques. For some of the behavior specification techniques, an interface to model checkers is offered. More in particular, TCM contains the following editors.

  • Generic editors for generic diagrams, generic tables and generic trees. All available icons can be used and no syntactic diagram constraints are checked.
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML) editors for static structure (i.e. class and object) diagrams, use-case diagrams, activity diagrams, statecharts, collaboration diagrams, component diagrams and deployment diagrams.
  • Structured Analysis (SA) editors for entity-relationship diagrams, data and event flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, function refinement trees, transaction-use tables and function-entity type tables.
  • Miscellaneous editors such as for JSD (process structure and network diagrams), recursive process graphs and transaction decomposition tables. These editors are no longer updated but they will remain available within TCM.

The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling was written circa 1996, by Roel Wieringa and Frank Dehne, for Wieringa's conceptual modeling courses and books, Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding,[1][2] and Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML.[3]

PDF versions of the User Guide[4] and report, The Yourdon Systems Method and the toolkit for conceptual modeling[5] are available for download.

TCM was an example of Computer Aided Software Engineering support for Method for Conceptual Modeling (MCM) in Model-Driven Architecture in Practice.[6] It was referenced in Petri Net Technology for Communication-Based Systems,[7] Formal Ontology in Information Systems,[8] and Proceedings : Ninth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design.[9]

TCM has been cited in patents for automatic software production.[10][11]

In 1997, NASA converted TCM C++ source to Java for a Web-based Hyper-text Environment for Requirements Engineering (WHERE) project.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM)". 2012-05-11. Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. Wieringa, Roel (1996-05-03). Requirements Engineering: Frameworks for Understanding. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-95884-0.
  3. Wieringa, R. J. (2003-01-09). Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate, and the UML. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-050395-0.
  4. "Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) User's Guide and Reference" (PDF). Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  5. The Yourdon Systems Method and the Toolkit for Conceptual modeling (PDF). Free University, Amsterdam. 2003.
  6. Pastor, Oscar; Molina, Juan Carlos (2007-06-14). Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 29. ISBN 978-3-540-71868-0.
  7. Ehrig, Hartmut; Reisig, Wolfgang; Rozenberg, Grzegorz; Weber, Herbert (2003-11-17). Petri Net Technology for Communication-Based Systems: Advances in Petri Nets. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-40022-6.
  8. Guarino, Nicola (1998). Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the First International Conference (FOIS'98), June 6–8, Trento, Italy. IOS Press. ISBN 978-90-5199-399-8.
  9. Proceedings : Ninth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design: April 16-18, 1998, Ise-Shima, Japan. IEEE Computer Society Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8186-8439-5.
  10. , "Automatic software production system", issued 2006-10-04
  11. , "Automatic software production system", issued 2008-09-26
  12. Dhaliwal, Swarn S. (1997-12-05). Providing the Persistent Data Storage in a Software Engineering Environment Using Java/COBRA and a DBMS (Thesis).


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