Given the capabilities of OO programming, its maturity and generality, it is a sane expectation to adopt OO as the paradigm of choice for XML processing. To serve that expectation, one would map XML schemas to object models so that XML data can be processed through familiar objects. The first generation of mapping technologies has been somewhat disappointing and the term X/O impedance mismatch ...

This article proposes a general graph-based representation for modeling Object Oriented (OO) software designs. The advantages of the representation over the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are: it formalizes the link between primitive OO design features and primitive entities of graphs; it models all the design features of an OO design in one cohesive graph; it provides us a convenient platform...

This paper describes the results of a study where the impact of Object-Oriented design on software quality characteristics is experimentally evaluated. A suite of metrics for OO design, called MOOD, was adopted to measure the use of OO design mechanisms. Data collected on the development of eight small-sized information management systems based on identical requirements were used to assess the ...

Object Oriented (OO) metrics play a key role in determining the efficiency of the code being developed under OO approaches. Cohesion and coupling are the widely used measures applied for the determination of important factors including reusability, maintainability and readability. There exists many Cohesion and Coupling based OO metrics making it difficult to choose the appropriate one. Moreove...

—Object Oriented (OO) metrics play a key role in determining the efficiency of the code being developed under OO approaches. Cohesion is one of the widely used measures applied for the determination of important factors including reusability, maintainability and readability. There exists many Cohesion based OO metrics making it difficult to choose the appropriate one. Moreover, improper applica...

In the inspection of treated water samples under microscope, knowing the average number of parasite (oo)cysts like Giardia and Cryptosporidium that exist in the samples is crucial as it tells whether the water is safe for consumption. Here, we introduce a new approach using a bidirectional contour tracing technique to segment and enumerate overlapping Cryptosporidium and Giardia (oo)cysts in mi...

Despite considerable research interest in the handling of uncertainty within GIS, the production of what has been described as an error sensitive GIS is still some way off. The increasing use of objectoriented (OO) technology presents a variety of opportunities, but also impediments to the implementation of such an error sensitive GIS. An important barrier stems from the lack of homogeneity wit...

The theory of the approximation by rational functions on point sets E of the js-plane (z = x+iy) has been summarized by J. L. Walsh who himself has proved a great number of important theorems some of which are fundamental. The results concern both the case when E is bounded and when E extends to infinity. In the present note a Z^-theory (0<p< oo) will be given for the following point sets exten...

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the Object-Oriented (OO) methodology in the analysis and design of a system. Employers are looking for graduates with OO knowledge. The change is also seen in the Systems Analysis and Design texts, which are increasingly adapting OO concepts and the Unified Process of systems development. However, there is a dilemma of how to best fit the O...

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in adapting object-oriented (OO) concepts, UML, and Unified Process of system development in the Systems Analysis and Design texts. However, there is a question of how to best fit these concepts with the existing coherent discussion of structured approach. This paper addresses some of the intricacies of OO concepts such as complexity of diagrams and ...