Modeling and inheritance of behaviour in object-oriented systems

Author

Philippi, Stephan

Author_Institution

Inst. for Software Technol., Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

342

Lastpage

347

Abstract

One of the main benefits of object orientation is the concept of inheritance which allows for the derivation of new types/classes from existing ones. Within commonly used object oriented languages, inheritance is usually directed to attributes and method signatures, only. Considering languages providing means for the specification of object life cycles, the concept of inheritance needs to be extended to be able to cover not only static but also behavioural aspects. The article introduces a set of requirements for the modeling and inheritance of object behaviour. Based on a short survey of existing work, a new approach is introduced which is suited to be used with a class of object oriented Petri nets

Keywords

Petri nets; inheritance; object-oriented programming; program visualisation; behaviour modeling; behavioural aspects; inheritance; object behaviour; object life cycles; object orientation; object oriented Petri nets; object oriented languages; object oriented systems; type/class derivation; Object oriented modeling; Proposals; System recovery; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1195-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2001.942080

Filename

942080