From natural language to working software

SDA Conference -Amsterdam 2014 Speaker: Marco Wobben

Brief history• NIAM / Nijssen (‘70s)

• FCO-IM / G. Bakema, JP. Zwart, H vd. Lek (‘92)

• ORM / T. Halpin (’96)

• CaseTalk (2001)

FCO-IMFully Communication Oriented Information Modeling

• 100% conceptualization

• Redundancy free

• Unification: facts and objects

• Substitution: expressions and tuples

• Generic repository

Fact based modeling• Domain expert participation

• Improved model quality; Consolidate business knowledge

• Complex business domains • Enterprise data integration

Technology independence

• More complete requirements, faster • Cost reduction

Example

34-KK-NN

Communication

Gasoline Consumption "The car with license number 34-KK-NN drives 12.0km per litre."

34-KK-NN

ModelingGasoline Consumption "The car with license number 34-KK-NN drives 12.0km per litre."

FCO-IM Diagram

UML Diagram

ER Diagram

Database Script

Verbalizations------------------------------------------------------------------ Facts ------------------------------------------------------------------

Gasoline Consumption: "The car with license number 34-KK-NN drives 12.0km per litre."

------------------------------------------------------------------ Business Rules ------------------------------------------------------------------

Car: "Car is uniquely identified by License number." "Car must have a Car Fuel."

Distance: "Distance is uniquely identified by #KM." "Distance must have a Gasoline Consumption."

Gasoline Consumption: "Gasoline Consumption is uniquely identified by Car."

CaseTalk Demo

CaseTalk Diagram

CaseTalk Script

CaseTalk ERD

CaseTalk APP

CaseTalk

CaseTalk

DDL Scripts, ERD, XMI, UML Classes Data Warehouse, XML Schema, OWL/RDF, Prototyping, etc..

Verification Evaluation

Negotiation

Verbalization, Concepts, Vision

Educational

Customers

Project metrics• ProRail / Master Data Management

> 1000 fact types

• KLM / Passenger & Cargo> 1500 facttypes

• HAN University / Operational> 2500 fact types

• Erasmus MC / Data Warehouse> 3500 fact types

Contact

www.casetalk.com

info@casetalk.com

Marco Wobben

BCP Software