together behavior and data into a single conceptual (and physical) entity. Object-orientation is reflected in the entire spectrum of current software development methodTzilla Elrad, Robert E. Filman, and Atef Bader, Guest Editors

Agent-oriented programming is a new paradigm for conceptualizing a computational system (Shoham, 1993), differing primarily from object-oriented programming in the inclusion of mental state in each of the processes. This paper offers two special-case versions (or idioms) of agent-oriented programming that encapsulates master-slave and peer-peer type interactions in simple protocols. These two i...

Today’s consumer network applications are composed of complex sets of interconnected hardware and software components. Application providers build component-level workflows to provide required functional properties and quality of service (QoS). However, to enhance the quality of user experience (QoE), applications are nowadays exposed to consumers as sets of widgets, i.e. compact and fully func...

The predominant design of object-oriented programming languages today provides insufficient support for interface abstraction and implementation inheritance, a limitation that forces software components to be unnecessarily biased towards particular implementations of other components. This scatters implementation bias across a system and impairs its ability to evolve. In this paper we trace the...

Object-Oriented Programming is enabled by advances in compiler technology and programming language design supporting en-capsulation and inheritance. This technical adjustment has had a surprisingly broad impact on strategies for design and development of software. This paper explains what Object-Oriented Programming is, why it has attracted so much interest, and then critically examines its imp...

C. Thomas Wu is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His research interests include Database Modeling, Object-Oriented Design and Programming, and User Interface. He has written two introductory object-oriented programming books (one in C++ and another in Java), both published from McGrawHill. He is currently working on an intermediate object-oriented programming book. ...

Software Modularization includes the concept of procedural, object based and objects oriented languages. The metrics presented and evaluated in this paper are both ‘pure’ object–oriented metrics (Metrics for pure object oriented programming) and metrics proposed for object–oriented programming (Object-based programming). Concept of software modularization is divided in three components i) Use o...

We describe an approach to the specification and implementation of consistency constraints in object-oriented database systems, adopting the programming-by-contract paradigm developed for object-oriented programming. We also investigate how consistency constraints specified in programming-by-contract can be transformed into production rules of an active, object-oriented database system.

1998 CR Categories: D.1.5 [Programming Techniques] Object-oriented Programming; D.2.2 [Software Engineering] Design Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented design methods; D.2.3 [Software Engineering] Coding Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented programming; D.3.3 [Software Engineering] Language Constructs and Featuresclasses and objects, dynamic storage management; D.4 [Operating Systems] Storage...

There have been many attempts to integrate object-oriented and functional programming. Solving the connicting requirements is diicult and only recently has a language, CLOVER, been designed that is purely functional and purely object-oriented and retains complete type safety. In this paper, we present the implementation of CLOVER: the object-oriented features are translated away in stages and t...