Object-oriented design and analyses for advanced application development: progress towards a new frontier

ABSTRACT

As we approach the mid-1990s, we have continued to see an increase in the power and capacities of workstations, allowing us to design and develop advanced applications that transcend the limitations of even five years ago. If we are to develop these applications, we must find design techniques that can support their intricate and complex requirements. Additionally, if we can improve the design process, we can more precisely characterize these applications with respect to their requirements. To answer these ifs, this paper presents our ongoing research efforts on an object-oriented design model. The object-oriented design model offers a wide variety of design constructs and analysis techniques so that designers can: develop more accurate representations of their applications; and, critique and understand their applications by first identifying potential problems and inconsistencies, and then initiating corrections.

REFERENCES

• 1: K. Beck , W. Cunningham, A laboratory for teaching object oriented thinking, Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications, p.1-6, October 02-06, 1989, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• 2: Timothy Budd, An introduction to object-oriented programming, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1991
• 3: Heidi J. C. Ellis , Steven A. Demurjian, ADAM: a graphical, object-oriented database-design tool and code generator, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer Science, p.496-505, April 1991, San Antonio, Texas, United States [doi>10.1145/327164.327337]
• 4: Barbara Liskov , Alan Snyder , Russell Atkinson , Craig Schaffert, Abstraction mechanisms in CLU, Communications of the ACM, v.20 n.8, p.564-576, Aug. 1977 [doi>10.1145/359763.359789]
• 5: G. Nichols and S. Demurjian =Object-Oriented Database Design for the Ozone Software-Development Environment~, Peoc. of 1990 BNCOD-8 Conf., July 1990, published by Putnam Press.
• 6: W. R. Rosenblatt , J. C. Wileden , Alexander L. Wolf, OROS: toward a type model for software development environments, Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications, p.297-304, October 02-06, 1989, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• 7: Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ programming language, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1986
• 8: Richard N. Taylor , Frank C. Belz , Lori A. Clarke , Leon Osterweil , Richard W. Selby , Jack C. Wileden , Alexander L. Wolf , Michael Young, Foundations for the Arcadia environment architecture, Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments, p.1-13, November 28-30, 1988, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• 9: T.C. Ting, "Application Information Security Semantics: A Case of Mental Health Delivery", in Database S~urity, III : Statua and ProapeetJ, D. Spooner and C. Landwehr (eds.), North-Holland, 1990.
• 10: T. C. Ting , Steven A. Demurjian , M.-Y. Hu, Requirements, Capabilities, and Functionalities of User-Role Based Security for an Object-Oriented Design Model, Results of the IFIP WG 11.3 Workshop on Database Security V: Status and Prospects, p.275-296, November 01, 1991
• 11: M.-Y. Hu , S. A. Demurjian , T. C. Ting, User-role based security profile for an object-oriented design model, Results of the Sixth Working Conference of IFIP Working Group 11.3 on Database Security on Database security, VI : status and prospects: status and prospects, p.333-348, January 1993, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 12: D. Tsichritzis and F. Lochovsky, Data Modda, Prentice-Hall, 1982.
• 13: Peter Wegner, Concepts and paradigms of object-oriented programming, ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger, v.1 n.1, p.7-87, Aug. 1990 [doi>10.1145/382192.383004]
• 14: Stanley B. Zdonik , David Maier, Object-oriented database systems, Readings in object-oriented database systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1989

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
      Subjects: Health

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: C++

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.1 Project and People Management
          Subjects: Systems analysis and design

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages, Management