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Activities: Abstractions for collective behavior

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Conventional object-oriented modeling lacks support for representing the interaction between objects in a conceptually intuitive way — often dispersing the logic/control of interplay throughout the objects. We introduce the concept of an activity as an abstraction mechanism to model the interplay between objects.

Activities model how our human cognition organizes interaction into units of collective behavior. They are described as classes, allowing interaction to be modeled by such abstraction processes as generalization and aggregation.

At the analysis and design level activities are presented as a general modeling tool for describing the collective behavior of systems of objects. We also discuss how activities can be supported at the implementation level by extending existing language constructs in relation to object-oriented programming languages.

This research was supported in part by the Danish Natural Science Research Council, No. 9400911.

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  1. Institute for Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, DK-9220, Aalborg Ø, Denmark

    Bent Bruun Kristensen

  2. Department of Information Systems, Monash University, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia

    Daniel C. M. May

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Kristensen, B.B., May, D.C.M. (1996). Activities: Abstractions for collective behavior. In: Cointe, P. (eds) ECOOP ’96 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1098. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053074

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