Research into the design methodologies for agent-oriented programming (AOP) is still in its infancy, with most of the work focused towards applying the well-known object-oriented concepts. Integration of inheritance into AOP seems a natural step in that direction. This paper addresses the notion of inheritance in AOP.We identify and formally de ne two problems which signi cantly reduce the usef...

This paper describes a theory of inheritance theories. We present an original theory of inheritance in nonmonotonic hierarchies. The structures on which this theory is based delineate a framework that subsumes most inheritance theories in the literature, providing a new foundation for inheritance. "* Our path-based theory is sound and complete w.r.t. a direct model-theoretic semantics. "* Both ...

Inheritance-the influence of ancestors on the phenotypes of their descendants-translates natural selection into evolutionary change. For the past century, inheritance has been conceptualized almost exclusively as the transmission of DNA sequence variation from parents to offspring in accordance with Mendelian rules, but advances in cell and developmental biology have now revealed a rich array o...

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Inheritance is a mechanism for incrementally modifying recursive definitions. While inheritance is typically used in object-oriented languages, inheritance also has something to offer to functional programming. In this paper we illustrate the use of inheritance in a pure functional language by developing a small library for memoization. We define monadic memoization mixins that compose—via inhe...

Identifying high cognitive complexity modules can lead to a better quality software system and can help during maintenance also. It has been found that inheritance has an impact on cognitive complexity of a software system. In this paper, two inheritance metrics based on cognitive complexity, one at class level CCI (Class Complexity due to Inheritance) and another at program level ACI (Average ...

Faithful chromosome inheritance is a fundamental biological activity and errors contribute to birth defects and cancer progression. We have performed a P-element screen in Drosophila melanogaster with the aim of identifying novel candidate genes involved in inheritance. We used a "sensitized" minichromosome substrate (J21A) to screen approximately 3,000 new P-element lines for dominant effects ...

Causation of a disease and a symptom generally is classified as genetic inheritance and environmental factors. A disease caused by a single gene disorder is defined as a disease that is attributed to a monogenic factor. A single gene disorder has been reported in more than 3,000 hereditary diseases. On the other hand, a polygenic or multifactorial disease is attributed to some susceptibility ge...

A large numbers of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. The coupling metrics presented in this paper exploring the difference between inheritance and interface programming. This paper presents a measurement to measure coupling between object (CBO), number of associations between classes (NASSocC), numbe...