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The ZOO Metasystem: A Direct-Manipulation Interface to Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases

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ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1987)

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Transparency and adaptability are important criteria for the usability of computer systems. It is not easy to fulfill these criteria in ill-structured domains by using traditional software concepts. The object-oriented approach, however, allows the construction of metasystems which enable the user to understand and manipulate the underlying conceptual schemata of an application system.

ZOO is a metasystem for the application expert. ZOO visualizes the contents of an object-oriented knowledge base in a graphic, spatial representation as a net of icons. ZOO allows its user to inspect, manipulate, create and delete the components of a knowledge base through direct manipulation of graphic objects.

The author was a member of the Research Group INFORM at the University of Stuttgart, when he developed the ZOO system. The Research Group INFORM is supported by the German Federal Ministery of Research and Technology (BMFT) under contract ITW8404A/4, as part of the joint project WISDOM. The development of the ZOO system was supported by the TA Triumph Adler AG, Nürnberg, West Germany.

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  1. K D ST SP 311, AI Programming Systems, Siemens AG, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-8000, München 83

    Dr. Wolf-Fritz Riekert

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique, LIB, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6, avenue V. le Gorgeu, F-29287, Brest Cédex, France

    Jean Bézivin

  2. 54, avenue des Gressets, F-92700, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France

    Jean-Marie Hullot

  3. Rank Xerox France, DRBI, 12, place de l’Iris, F-92071, La Défense, Cedex 38, France

    Pierre Cointe

  4. The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545, Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Henry Lieberman

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Riekert, WF. (1987). The ZOO Metasystem: A Direct-Manipulation Interface to Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases. In: Bézivin, J., Hullot, JM., Cointe, P., Lieberman, H. (eds) ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47891-4_13

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