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An object-based approach to the specification of office entities

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Computing in the 90's (Great Lakes CS 1989)

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Office-specific systems are often difficult and costly to implement and/or prototype. One reason for this difficulty is the unavailability of an appropriate office specification language. In this paper, we introduce an object-based language to formally specify the externally observable behavior of office objects as well as their computations. This language is called Absl and is based on the actor model. The overall structure of Absl objects as well as some of their properties are presented.

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Nebraska, 68182, Omaha, Nebraska

    Hossein Saiedian

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Naveed A. Sherwani Elise de Doncker John A. Kapenga

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Saiedian, H. (1991). An object-based approach to the specification of office entities. In: Sherwani, N.A., de Doncker, E., Kapenga, J.A. (eds) Computing in the 90's. Great Lakes CS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 507. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038501

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