Ole-Johan Dahl

Common Base Language, by Ole-Johan Dahl, Bjørn Myhrhaug and Kristen Nygaard

Magne Haveraaen

Olaf Owe

This book contains a strictly refereed selection of revised full papers chosen from the papers accepted for presentation during the 11th Workshop on Abstract Data Types held jointly with the 8th COMPASS Workshop in Oslo, Norway, in September 1995. The 25 research papers included were chosen from 57 pre-selected workshop presentations; also included are six invited contributions. The volume reports the progress achieved in the area of algebraic specification since the predecessor meeting held in May 1994.

11th Workshop on Specification of Abstract Data Types, Joint with the 8th COMPASS Workshop, Oslo, Norway, September 19 - 23, 1995, Selected Papers

Recent Trends in Data Type Specification

Steven Reiss

Bruce D. Shriver

Gul Agha

David Beech

Peter Wegner

Daniel G Bobrow

Joseph A Goguen

Brent Hailpern

Kenneth M Kahn

Ole Lehrmann Madsen

David Maier

Andrea Skarra

Harold L Ossher

Herbert Schwetman

Reid Smith

Alan Snyder

Stanley Zdonik

Once a radical notion, object-oriented programming is one of today's most active research areas. It is especially well suited to the design of very large software projects involving many programmers all working on the same project. The original contributions in this book will provide researchers and students in programming languages, databases, and programming semantics with the most complete survey of the field available. Broad in scope and deep in its examination of substantive issues, the book focuses on the major topics of object-oriented languages, models of computation, mathematical models, object-oriented databases, and object-oriented environments.The object-oriented languages include Beta, the Scandinavian successor to Simula (a chapter by Bent Kristensen, whose group has had the longest experience with object-oriented programming, reveals how that experience has shaped the group's vision today); CommonObjects, a Lisp-based language with abstraction; Actors, a low-level language for concurrent modularity; and Vulcan, a Prolog-based concurrent object-oriented language.New computational models of inheritance, composite objects, block-structure layered systems, and classification are covered, and theoretical papers on functional object-oriented languages and object-oriented specification are included in the section on mathematical models.The three chapters on object-oriented databases (including David Maier's "Development and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Database Management System," which spans the programming and database worlds by integrating procedural and representational capability and the requirements of multi-user persistent storage) and the two chapters on object-oriented environments provide a representative sample of good research in these two important areas.Bruce Shriver is a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Peter Wegner is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming is included in the Computer Systems series, edited by Herb Schwetman.

Research Directions in Object-oriented Programming

Ole-Johan Dahl

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