Share-kno: Knowledge Sharing Mechanism of the Temporal Object System

Abstract

Temporal Object System (TOS) handles the structural and stature changes to an object in a uniform and temporal fashion. The TOS takes a hybrid approach of the class-based and prototype-based approaches in modeling the real-word objects and knowledge sharing among the objects. This hybrid approach makes it flexible than the two approaches, i.e., the class-based approach and the prototype-based approach. In this paper, we propose a model of knowledge sharing mechanism, Share-kno (SK) for object hierarchy of the TOS. We also formally prove that the Share-kno (SK) model encapsulates more knowledge than the inheritance hierarchy and delegation hierarchy models proposed by Stein.