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An Overview of OOPS+, an Object-Oriented Database Programming Language

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ECOOP ’88 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1988)

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This paper provides a brief introduction to the OOPS+ knowledge-representation language. While basically object-oriented, OOPS+ integrates database concepts as well as classical knowledge-representation techniques such as rule-based inference and demons. In addition, the language supports types as first-class objects, inheritance, imperative function definition, and query facilities based on logic programming.

This research was supported in part by the EEC Esprit program under contract P1117

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  1. Philips International B.V. Corp. ISA / AIT, Building VN3, P.O. BOX 218, 5600 MD, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Els Laenens & Dirk Vermeir

  2. Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, U.I.A., Universiteitsplein 1, B2610, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Els Laenens & Dirk Vermeir

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo 3, Norway

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Laenens, E., Vermeir, D. (1988). An Overview of OOPS+, an Object-Oriented Database Programming Language. In: Gjessing, S., Nygaard, K. (eds) ECOOP ’88 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45910-3_21

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