TY  - JOUR
AB  - Software packages for reconstructability analysis (RA), as well as for related log linear modeling, generally provide a fixed set of functions. Such packages are suitable for end‐users applying RA in various domains, but do not provide a platform for research into the RA methods themselves. A new software system, Occam3, is being developed which is intended to address three goals which often conflict with one another to provide: a general and flexible infrastructure for experimentation with RA methods and algorithms; an easily‐configured system allowing methods to be combined in novel ways, without requiring deep software expertise; and a system which can be easily utilized by domain researchers who are not computer specialists. Meeting these goals has led to an architecture which strictly separates functions into three layers: the core, which provides representation of data sets, relations, and models; the management layer, which provides extensible objects for development of new algorithms; and the script layer, which allows the other facilities to be combined in novel ways to address a particular domain analysis problem.
VL  - 33
IS  - 5/6
SN  - 0368-492X
DO  - 10.1108/03684920410534047
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920410534047
AU  - Willett Kenneth
AU  - Zwick Martin
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - A software architecture for reconstructability analysis
T2  - Kybernetes
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 997
EP  - 1008
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -