Abstract
The object-oriented approach has emerged as the dominant perspective of software engineering research. Object-oriented models provide a powerful tool for specifying requirements and developing solutions of real-world problems. Although a wide variety of constructs have been proposed in the literature for object-oriented modeling, there has not been much work on extending these models for distributed applications. This paper identifies the requirements and issues of modeling the behavior of an object-oriented distributed system and presents an analysis of the behavior modeling techniques. We propose a unifying framework, called hierarchical sequences of events, for distributed behavior modeling. Our approach is to investigate the requirements of distributed applications and enrich existing object-oriented models with structural and behavior modeling primitives and constructs for distributed systems. More specifically, we identify new attributes and properties of individual objects and extend the existing event-based behavior modeling constructs to accommodate the modeling requirements of distributed systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1658-1663 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics |
| Volume | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part 3 (of 4) - Beijing, China Duration: 14 Oct 1996 → 17 Oct 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Control and Systems Engineering