A redesign of NEC2 using the object-oriented paradigm

Author

Nitch, D.C. ; Fourie, A.P.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

20-24 June 1994

Firstpage

1150

Abstract

In the days in which NEC2 was written, the software design philosophy in vogue was that of structural decomposition or procedural programming. Since the early 1980´s computer programs of increasing complexity have been developed. These programs have highlighted deficiencies in the structural design technique. Primarily, these were that not enough support was given to data abstraction and information hiding. Programming methodologies such as object-based and object oriented methods were developed to overcome these shortcomings. This paper presents an object-oriented design of NEC2.<>

Keywords

electrical engineering; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetism; object-oriented programming; systems re-engineering; NEC2; computer programs; data abstraction; information hiding; object oriented methods; object-based programming; object-oriented design; object-oriented paradigm; procedural programming; software design; structural decomposition; Africa; Humans; National electric code; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Problem-solving; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1994. AP-S. Digest

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2009-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1994.407887

Filename

407887