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Formalising Object-Oriented Models in the Object Calculus

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Object-Oriented Technologys (ECOOP 1997)

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This paper identifies how object models, statecharts and interaction diagrams can be given a semantics in the Object Calculus of Fiadeiro and Maibaum. A compositional interpretation of object model and statechart diagrams is developed, with separate theories constructed for object instances, class managers and associations which are then combined using categorical constructions to yield a formal interpretation of complete systems.

We use this semantics to identify some problematic features of these notations in the Syntropy method.

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  1. Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    J. C. Bicarregui, K. C. Lano & T. S. E. Maibaum

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Business Administration, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK

    Stuart Mitchell

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Bicarregui, J.C., Lano, K.C., Maibaum, T.S.E. (1998). Formalising Object-Oriented Models in the Object Calculus. In: Bosch, J., Mitchell, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Technologys. ECOOP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69687-3_33

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