Object-oriented dataflow

Author

Kimura, Takuyuki Dan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

5-9 Sep 1995

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

186

Abstract

In our efforts to develop an object-oriented visual programming language, the dataflow model of computation is extended from its traditional functional model to an object-oriented model. It is argued that the concept of subroutine in the object-oriented model requires two different types of calling (activation) mechanisms, the synchronous call and the asynchronous call. Asynchronous subroutine call offers a new abstraction mechanism for object-oriented programming, different from the traditional class-based abstraction and functional abstraction

Keywords

data flow analysis; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; subroutines; visual languages; visual programming; abstraction mechanism; asynchronous call; asynchronous subroutine call; calling mechanisms; class-based abstraction; computation model; functional abstraction; functional model; object-oriented dataflow; object-oriented model; object-oriented programming; object-oriented visual programming language; subroutine; synchronous call; Algorithms; Computer languages; Computer science; Laboratories; Message passing; Network servers; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, Proceedings., 11th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7045-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1995.520807

Filename

520807