Specifying interface properties in object-oriented conceptual models

  • Authors:
  • Oscar Pastor;Pedro J. Molina;Alberto Aparicio

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46020 Valencia, Spain;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46020 Valencia, Spain;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46020 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • AVI '00 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

If we accept that computer representation of a conceptual model must be closer to the idea or the world the user has in mind, the conventional object-oriented methods fail in properly addressing the specification of semantics of presentation features within the conceptual model itself. To solve this problem, the conceptual model expressiveness must be enriched adding interface specification to capture such essential information. This information capture must be done preserving the semantics of the conceptual model as a whole.In this paper, a set of relevant interface patterns will be introduced in the conceptual modelling phase, preserving the homogeneity of the model. The enrichment is applied to OO Method, a software production OO method developed in the Information Systems and Computation Department at the Valencia University of Technology. Following the OO-Method approach a software product is automatically obtained from the conceptual model and the interface generation is obtained in a natural way.