From specification to management of composite object behavior

Author

Magnan, M. ; Vauttier, S. ; Oussalah, C.

Author_Institution

EMA-EERIE, Nimes, France

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

146

Abstract

Many object-oriented systems provide composite objects to represent and manipulate objects having a complex structure. But only few systems provide adapted means to capture the behavior of composite objects. Nonetheless, managing the global behavior of composite objects is a complicated task which encompasses several aspects: the collaboration of the behavior of the composite object with that of its components, the management of its semantic integrity and the evolution of its behavior. Based on this taxonomy, a model is proposed for the specification, the representation and the management of the global behavior of composite objects

Keywords

formal specification; object-oriented programming; complex structure; composite object behavior management; composite object behavior specification; global behavior management; object manipulation; object representation; object-oriented systems; semantic integrity management; Assembly; Cobalt; International collaboration; Management information systems; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Proposals; Taxonomy; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 1997. TOOLS 23. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8383-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1997.654714

Filename

654714