Acquisition and reuse of knowledge to design embedded software

Focus is on a framework for acquiring software design knowledge and an interactive advisory system to reuse that knowledge. The focus is on a particular type of design expertise, called navigation knowledge. Such knowledge is needed to guide the software design process. The book addresses the technical issues of which design goals to achieve, what design operators to apply next and how to perform design operations. Also presented is an architecture of a knowledge-based assistant system to reuse navigation knowledge.