The successful application of object-oriented technology to real-world problems is a nontrivial task. This is particularly true for developers transitioning from nonobject-oriented methods to object-oriented methods. Key factors that improve the probability of success in applying object-oriented methods are selecting an object-oriented method, developing a process definition, and continually im...

Object-oriented database systems are becoming popular and are being used in a large number of application domains. Many of these application domains are inherently distributed. The focus of this work is on articulating the concepts of method induced partitioning schemes in object-oriented databases by understanding and classifying the object behavior embodied by the methods. We provide a soluti...

The recent interest in object-oriented analysis has resulted in the introduction of abstraction in the analysis phase of information systems development life cycle. Abstraction has been proven to be a powerful object-oriented construct through which software complexity can be reduced and software productivity can be improved. Our main aim in this paper is to provide the support of abstraction f...

Object–oriented methods can substantially improve achievement of software–engineering and system–building goals. Choosing a method means looking at the support it offers for the object– oriented paradigm, for the application domain of the software developer, and for software–engineering principles, practices, and goals. In this presentation we shall explore how these needs are answered by vario...

In object-oriented modeling an object reacts objectively to an invocation of one of its methods in the sense that it is given which description for the method is interpreted. Subjective behavior of an object means that is not objectively given which description is interpreted | the choice depends on other factors than the invocation such as the invoking object, the context of the objects, and t...

Object-oriented views play a key role when giving accessing applications a new or restricted perspective on persistent object-oriented data. However, traditional object-oriented view systems only allow for limited changes when it comes to restructuring a database schema and the related persistent objects in a view. We present a new approach for defining object-oriented views that enables view s...