Design Research and Object-Oriented Ontology

Design-oriented Research versus Research-oriented Design

In this position paper, the two terms design-oriented research and research-oriented design are studied and discussed in some detail in relation to HCI. In designoriented research—where research is the area and design the means—the production of new knowledge and the questioning of problem descriptions and other kinds of limitations to the freedom of design are seen as characterizing elements. ...

Synergies Between Object-Oriented Programming Language Design and Implementation Research

By pursuing language design and language implementation research in parallel, interactions between the two research areas can be exploited to make faster, better progress in both. We report on our experiences working on the Cecil language design project and the Vortex optimizing compiler project, highlighting how each project has encouraged and challenged the other.

Ontology-Oriented Design and Programming

In the construction of both conventional software and intelligent systems, developers continue to seek higher level abstractions that both can aid in conceptual modeling and can assist in implementation and maintenance. In recent years, the artificial intelligence community has placed considerable attention on the notion of explicit ontologies— shared conceptualizations of application areas tha...

Guiding Object-oriented Design Guiding Object-oriented Design

In this paper we show how software architectural styles can be used to guide object-oriented design. Design guidance is important as the initial phases of software design signiicantly impact software quality. We use two diierent architectural styles to guide the design process from a formal speciication to a design. Software architectural styles assist by providing a diierent level of reuse tha...

Object-Oriented Modeling and Design