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...

Advances in embedded system software, including event and data based computation models, high-level simulation and analysis, concurrent programming concepts, and real time scheduling, can take decades to have a significant impact on practice. A key barrier to adoption of new techniques is the tendency for engineers to fall back to their first-learned techniques. Such tendencies are ubiquitous, ...

We present a snapshot of work in progress to define a formal model of the composition technology which underpins Subject-oriented and Aspectoriented programming.

Although much progress has been made in agent theory and practice, bottlenecks remain in the construction of complex multiagent systems. We iniroduce interaction-oriented programming (lOP) as an approach to orchestrate the interactions among agents. As envisioned, lOP is more tractable and practical than general agent programming, especially in settings where the internal details of autonomousl...

Shoham, Y., Agent-oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence 60 (1993) 51-92. A new computational framework is presented, called agent-oriented programming (AOP), which can be viewed as a specialization of object-oriented programming. The state of an agent consists of components such as beliefs, decisions, capabilities, and obligations; for this reason the state of an agent is called its men...