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Instances Evolution Vs Classes Evolution

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1999)

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we propose a model developed to have inherent capabilities for auto-adaptation between classes and instances. Our two main objectives are: to allow objects to evolve their structures dynamically, with all necessary impacts on the database schema; to allow, similarly, the creation and display of different plans for evolving the design, like ways of schema evolution, giving in this way a simulation tool for database design and maintenance.

Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms inspired the idea of objects evolving and adapting to their environment. A model evolution is then considered in an auto-adaptive loop between classes and instances. Change is two-way: that coming down from class to object instantiates in development processes; that coming up from object to class in emergence processes which concern evolved instances which become not conform to any existing class.

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  1. LGI2P, Site EERIE — EMA Parc Scientifique Georges Besse, 30035, Nîmes Cedex 1, France

    Dalila Tamzalit & Chabane Oussalah

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L49 3BX, UK

    Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon

  2. Department of Systems and Computers, University of Florence, Via S. Marta, 3, I-50139, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Soda

  3. IFS, Technical University of Vienna, Resselgasse 3, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

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Tamzalit, D., Oussalah, C. (1999). Instances Evolution Vs Classes Evolution. In: Bench-Capon, T.J., Soda, G., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1677. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48309-8_2

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