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- From: haim@dancer.uucp (24103-kilov)
- Subject: CFP: OOPSLA Workshop on serious oo reasoning in information modeling
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:11:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.221122.29495@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- Serious object-oriented reasoning in information modeling
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- The conscious use of abstraction is very well understood in the programming
- world. Investigation is needed for better use of abstraction in information
- modeling. One of the major issues here is how to describe information (data +
- behavior) independently of how it is stored or used. Among the questions to be
- addressed:
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- How do you represent a "conceptual schema" using an object approach? In
- particular, how do you represent a relationship? How do you specify object
- operations? How do you represent operations spanned across several objects?
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- Does the "entity-relationship approach" to information modeling lack behavior?
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- How can you specify behavior in an implementation-independent manner?
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- What is the "impedance mismatch" problem for the object paradigm?
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- Is API specification consistent with the object approach?
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- Is it possible to create an Object SQL and not delete anything from SQL?
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- Is it possible to do object programming in <your favorite programming language>?
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- How can you represent catalogs of data elements and encyclopedic resources for
- information management with regard to representation of behavior?
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- Position papers are not to exceed three pages and are due no later than August
- 15, 1992. Submissions by e-mail are strongly encouraged. Participants will be
- selected based on the interest and quality of their position papers. Suggestions
- for possible panels and their participants are also welcome. Some accepted
- position papers will be chosen for presentation at the workshop. Applicants will
- be notified of acceptance by September 15 and will receive a copy of the
- position papers.
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- Workshop organizers:
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- Bill Harvey, Robert Morris College, Coraopolis, PA,
- and
- Haim Kilov, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
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- Contact information:
- Haim Kilov, Bell Communications Research, MRE 1F216, 435 South Street,
- Morristown, NJ 07960
- (Phone: 201-829-2816; Fax: 201-829-5678, e-mail: haim@bcr.cc.bellcore.com
- or
- haim@dancer.cc.bellcore.com)
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- (The date of the Workshop is Sunday, October 18, 1992).
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