Domain Analysis and Modeling of a Model-Based Software Executive

This research was adapted the domain analysis techniques of Prieto- Diaz and Tracz to specify a domain analysis process which was used to conduct domain analysis over the domain of software executives. This analysis created a set of informal and formal domain model artifacts. The domain model artifacts were instantiated into two application executive subsystems. These executive subsystems operated in Architect, a domain-oriented application composition system based on the Object-Connection-Update (OCU) model. This research demonstrated and evaluated execution of the instantiated executive domain model in a series of event-driven and time-driven applications. As a consequence of developing the application executive for Architect, this research proposes additions to the OCU model.