Software engineering tools and approaches for neuroinformatics: the design and implementation of the View-Primitive Data Model f

We describe a software-engineering strategy called the `View-Primitive Data Model framework' (or `VPDMf') derived from the design of leading commercial software engineering tools. We describe a prototypical implementation of the strategy and its use within neuroinformatics. We present the argument that the only way to fulfill on demands for reliable, easy-to-use software by non-computational communities of neuroscientists is for developers within neuroinformatics to adopt and contribute to approaches such the VPDMf under the open-source paradigm. We present the VPDMf as one such development opportunity. Keywords Neuroinformatics, Software engineering, ontologies, data modeling

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: IJON
• Authors: Gully A. P. C. Burns, Fang Bian, Wei-Cheng Cheng, Shyam Kapadia, Cyrus Shahabi, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
• Keywords: Data Model Framework, IJON 2002, Neuroinformatics, Software Engineering