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A Reflective Architecture for an Adaptable Object-Oriented Operating System Based on C++

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Object-Oriented Technologys (ECOOP 1997)

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The paper presents an approch for achieving dynamic adaptability in operating system by means of an object-oriented system architecture. The concept is based on the ideas of reflection and runtime representations of abstractions and was realized in C++.

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  1. Chemnitz University of Technology, D-09107, Chemnitz, Germany

    Frank Schubert

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Business Administration, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK

    Stuart Mitchell

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Schubert, F. (1998). A Reflective Architecture for an Adaptable Object-Oriented Operating System Based on C++. In: Bosch, J., Mitchell, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Technologys. ECOOP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69687-3_92

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