TAPOS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
Building and maintaining the class hierarchy has been recognized as an important but one of the most difficult activities of object-oriented design. Concept (or Galois) lattices a...
INFSOF
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
In this paper, we present a locking-based concurrency control scheme for object-oriented databases (OODBs). Our scheme deals with class hierarchy which is an important property in...
CGO
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Class hierarchies in object-oriented programs are used to capture various attributes of the underlying objects they represent, allowing programmers to encapsulate common attribute...
EWCBR
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1998
Springer
Object-oriented case representations require approaches for similarity assessment that allow to compare two differently structured objects, in particular, objects belonging to diff...
SIGSOFT
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1998
ACM
The design of a class hierarchy may be imperfect. For example, a class C may contain a member m not accessed in any C-instance, an indication that m could be eliminated, or moved ...
SOFTVIS
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
UML diagrams have become increasingly important in the engineering and reengineering processes for software systems. Of particular interest are UML class diagrams whose purpose is...
FCA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The class hierarchy is an important aspect of object-oriented software development. Design and maintenance of such a hierarchy is a difficult task that is often accomplished witho...
SAINT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Among various metadata design difficulties, 1) designing subsumption relation of two classes, 2) designing diverse properties of a given class, and 3) determining whether an item...