Object-oriented box structures for developing complex systems

Author

Becker, Shirley A. ; Beiler, Phillip J. ; Hevner, Alan R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., American Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

52

Abstract

The combination of object-oriented concepts and formal system development methods provides a powerful means for the analysis and design of complex systems. As demonstrated by (A. Hevner and H. Mills, 1993), box structures are a mathematical representation of system views that support object-oriented system development. The authors extend the box description language (BDL) in order for it to support a full description of object-oriented features such as object classes, encapsulation and inheritance. The extended language, object-oriented box description language (OOBDL), provides a semantic and syntactic means of describing objects, classes of objects, and their ability to interact with one another by message passing.<>

Keywords

abstract data types; message passing; object-oriented languages; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; BDL; OOBDL; box description language; complex systems development; encapsulation; formal system development methods; inheritance; mathematical representation; message passing; object classes; object-oriented box description language; object-oriented box structures; object-oriented concepts; object-oriented features; object-oriented system development; system views;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323367

Filename

323367