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It is the aim of this paper to present an approach to object-oriented analysis that tends to be general purpose, in that it represents entities and events of the application domain without being affected by implementative issues. Thus, we wish to overcome major limitations of current object-oriented analysis methodologies: they produce schemas that are actually usable only in object-oriented development environments, and still express dynamic knowledge in natural language or in procedural form. Our approach is based on a object-oriented model that replaces the method, or routine, primitive with the law primitive and establishes a strict dependency between object structural and behavioural representations. In particular, the dynamics is described by constraining variations of object states by means of invariants expressed in the form of predicate calculus formulas.
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Bonfatti, F., Monari, P.D. (1994). Towards a general purpose approach to object-oriented analysis. In: Bertino, E., Urban, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems. ISOOMS 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 858. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014020
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