Technology transfers between software and hardware engineering date back to a decade and a half. Objectoriented technology from software engineering is one such successful transfer to hardware design. There is a natural correspondence between object-oriented concepts and hardware design. The work presented in this paper extends the basic application of object-oriented technology to system-level...

Object-Role Modeling (ORM) is a method for modeling and querying an information system at the conceptual level, and mapping between conceptual and logical (e.g. relational) levels. ORM comes in various flavors, including NIAM (Natural language Information Analysis Method). This article provides an overview of ORM, and notes its advantages over Entity Relationship and traditional Object-Oriented...

Integrated environments in general may support the four integration areas: data-integration, control-integration, presentation-integration and process-integration. The SISIP architecture takes a unified object-oriented approach to these four integration areas. The underlying infrastructure is based on distributed persistent objects, realized by a combination of objectoriented database technolog...

In this paper we outline a new process model for security engineering. This process model extends object oriented, use case oriented software development by systematic security requirements elicitation and realization. In particular, we integrate the modeling of security requirements, threat and risk analysis on the one hand with the modeling of business processes, use cases and the constructio...

0 We are exploring the use of entity and object oriented data modeling techniques for managing CAD data.-entity oriented: data is organized into hierarchical structures which are strongly typed.-object oriented: strict control over the operations that can be applied to a particular type of entity (possibly with inheritance of operations from related types). These data modeling techniques are ap...

Object-Role Modeling (ORM) is a method for modeling and querying an information system at the conceptual level, and mapping between conceptual and logical (e.g. relational) levels. ORM comes in various flavors, including NIAM (Natural language Information Analysis Method). This article provides an overview of ORM, and notes its advantages over Entity Relationship and traditional Object-Oriented...

This paper describes experiences from a three-day course held as part of a collaborative research project, in which object-oriented programming was taught to a group of engineers who were all proficient C programmers. Our approach to teaching object-oriented programming focuses on conceptual modeling, emphasizing that object-orientation is not a bag of solutions and technology; rather, object-o...

This article presents a new object-oriented model structure, entitled multiport diagram, which has been developed to deal with the hybrid nature of batch systems and the heterogeneity of knowledge (theoretical and experimental). The object-oriented paradigm of the multiport diagram is described by the Willem’s behavioral modeling formalism which brings a reliable and suitable mathematical frame...

The objective of this paper is to review object-oriented (OO) approaches to data modeling and data handling and their usefulness in transportation planning and modeling in general and Intelligent Transportation Systems in particular. The paper begins with a discussion of the current GIS data model for representing a transportation network and the most common database management systems used in ...

Although object-oriented paradigm is becoming a more realistic approach to the development of largescale software systems, the existing object-oriented notations and methodologies do not fully support the development of distributed object systems. In this paper, we integrate Meta-Object Protocol (MOP) into a de facto standard object-oriented modeling language UML together to build a software ar...