| Authoring-in-the-large is a complex, knowledge-intensive process that shares many of the characteristics of large software engineering efforts. However, authoring-in-the-large is not supported by the wide range of tools and techniques available for software engineering.;ThyDoc is centred around the Telos conceptual modelling language. Telos is used to represent knowledge about the subject matter, structure, and presentation of hypertext documents. In addition, selected constructs of the Taxis semantic data modelling language are integrated into ThyDoc to model the dynamic browsing semantics of hypertext documents. (Abstract shortened by UMI.);The intent of this research has been to evolve authoring-in-the-large into the more structured discipline of document engineering. The focus of this thesis is on applying knowledge-based software engineering technologies to document engineering through a framework called ThyDoc. The overall philosophy of ThyDoc is to make document engineering a knowledge acquisition process which captures all the knowledge authors need for the analysis, design, development, and maintenance of complex hypertext document sets. |
