ASCE™ - Schemas

A major feature of ASCE  is the ability to load additional notations - known as ASCE Schemas. These schemas allow ASCE to be used in a very wide range of business contexts where there is a benefit in explicitly structuring information into meaningful chunks according to a particular notation.

ASCE  comes with inbuilt schemas and can be extended by the use of additional schemas which are loaded into the asce-schemas folder (typically c:\program files\ASCE-v35\asce-schemas\).

• Inbuilt Schemas
• Supplied Schemas
• Additional Schemas

The following notations are built into ASCE:

• Claims - Arguments - Evidence (ASCAD 1.0) - screenshot
• Goal Structuring Notation - screenshot

For users of ASCE 2.0 these schemas can be downloaded (they are already part of ASCE v3.0): ASCAD 1.2_and_ASCE-GSN 1.2.zip

The following schemas are supplied with ASCE 2.0 (installed into c:\program files\ASCE-v20\asce-schemas\)

• Why Because Analysis - screenshot
• Project Management Schema - for PERT (screenshot) and GANTT (screenshot) style charts

Additional schemas that are available are shown below. To install the schema, simply download the .schema file into the asce-schemas folder where ASCE is installed on your machine (typically c:\program files\ASCE-v20\asce-schemas\).

GQM
GQM (Goals, Questions, Metrics) is a systematic method for software measurement, originally developed by Victor Basili at the University of Maryland.



References (from www.cs.emd.edu)

• The Goal Question Metric Approach
• Using the GQM Paradigm to Investigate Influential Factors for Software Process Improvement
• An Approach to Improving Existing Measurement Frameworks





Author/Developer

The GQM schema and accompanying document GQM_intro.doc were developed by:
    * T. Scott Ankrum, Mitre Corporation



Download

• GQM_schema.zip (960kb - includes documentation)



Bow-tie analysis (beta)
A sample schema for developing "Bow tie analysis" networks in ASCE:
Bow_Tie_schema_and_examples_v01a.zip



Fault tree analysis (beta)
For building simple probabilistic fault trees (also includes a plugin for calculating probabilities):
ASCE_fault_tree_schema_and_plugin_v01b.zip