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IEEE Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS'96)
Improving the Quality of Systems and Domain Analysis through Object Class Congruency
Friedrichshafen, GERMANY
March 11-March 15
ISBN: 0-8186-7355-9
Stephen W. Clyde, Utah State University
David W. Embley, Brigham Young University
Scott N. Woodfield, Brigham Young University
A new concept for assessing the quality of object classes in analysis models, called object-class congruency, is formally defined and discussed. Object-class congruency is based on the idea that immediate and inherited properties defined for an object class should match the common properties of the class's members. A semantic model with a formal definition is used to formalize these concepts. In addition to defining object-class congruency, two semantic-preserving transformations that convert incongruent classes into congruent classes are given. It is also explained why object-class congruency leads to better abstraction of real-world concepts and to better implementation, extension, and reuse.
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Stephen W. Clyde, David W. Embley, Scott N. Woodfield, "Improving the Quality of Systems and Domain Analysis through Object Class Congruency," ecbs, pp.44, IEEE Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS'96), 1996
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