Object-oriented Programming with C++ and Smalltalk


Book Description

This text describes the design goals and language features of object-oriented languages without viewing them from the perspective of any particular language. The author discusses Smalltalk-80 and C++ so students can understand how these concepts are realized. It provides coverage of the object model from a software design and language feature perspective, as well as covering key object-oriented principles - date abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and dynamic binding. Detailed coverage of Smalltalk and C++ emphasize their similarities and differences in terms of design goals, language features, and usage. Also discussed are: the benefits of the object model; the latest extensions to C++; and the application of object-oriented concepts to the development of large software projects. Chapter summaries, extensive exercises, and a glossary of object-oriented terminology support the text.




Object-oriented Analysis and Design with Applications


Book Description

This revision of Grady Booch's classic offers the first industry-wide standard for notation in developing large scale object-oriented systems. Laying the groundwork for the development of complex systems based on the object model, the author works in C++ to provide five fully-developed design examples, along with many smaller applications. Three of these capstone projects are new with this edition, including an inventory tracking system which implements a client server. The other four span problem domains as diverse as data acquisition for scientific tools, framework, artificial intelligence, and command and control. To measure progress, metrics in object development are suggested so that the developer knows how the project is going. In addition, the author demonstrates good and bad object designs and shows how to manage the trade-offs in complex systems.




Validated Designs for Object-oriented Systems


Book Description

This book provides an introduction to practical formal modelling techniques in the context of object-oriented system design. It is aimed at both practising software engineers with some prior experience of object-oriented design/programming and at intermediate or advanced students studying object-oriented design or modelling in a short course. The following features make this book particularly attractive to potential instructors: § The relationship with UML and object-oriented programming makes it easy to integrate with the mainstream computing curriculum. Although the book is about formal methods, it does not have to be treated as a specialist topic. § The use of tools and an accessible modelling language improves student motivation. § The industry-based examples and case studies add to the credibility of the approach. § The light touch approach means that the material appeals to students with a wider range of abilities than is the case in a conventional formal methods text. § Support materials as listed above.




Programming with Class


Book Description

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the concepts and techniques of OOP. The book covers why object-oriented programming is being adopted, how object-oriented languages, classes, ADTs, inheritance and reuse work, and a brief overview of analysis, design, and implementation issues.




ECAI 2012


Book Description

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a vital part in the continued development of computer science and informatics. The AI applications employed in fields such as medicine, economics, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and logical analysis, not forgetting industry, are now indispensable for the effective functioning of a multitude of systems. This book presents the papers from the 20th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2012, held in Montpellier, France, in August 2012. The ECAI conference remains Europe's principal opportunity for researchers and practitioners of Artificial Intelligence to gather and to discuss the latest trends and challenges in all subfields of AI, as well as to demonstrate innovative applications and uses of advanced AI technology. ECAI 2012 featured four keynote speakers, an extensive workshop program, seven invited tutorials and the new Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence track, in which six invited speakers delivered perspective talks on particularly interesting new research results, directions and trends in Artificial Intelligence or in one of its related fields. The proceedings of PAIS 2012 and the System Demonstrations Track are also included in this volume, which will be of interest to all those wishing to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of AI.







Object-oriented Software Design and Construction with C++


Book Description

Covers four main areas: the re-use of software; tools and practices that software developers must use; GUI library utilization; and event-driven systems. Java applets are used to enhance the concept of conceptual material through animation and interaction.




Object-oriented Software for Manufacturing Systems


Book Description

I must confess that I stumbled upon the object-oriented (00) world view during my explorations into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) in search of a new solution to the problem of building computer-integrated manufacturing systems (CIM). In 00 computing, I found the constructs to model the manufacturing enterprise in terms of information, a resource that is common to all activities in an organization. It offered a level of modularity, and the coupling/binding neces sary for fostering integration without placing undue restrictions on what the individual applications can do. The implications of 00 computing are more extensive than just being a vehicle for manufacturing applications. Leaders in the field such as Brad Cox see it introducing a paradigm shift that will change our world gradually, but as radically as the Industrial Revolution changed manufacturing. However, it must be borne in mind that simply using an object-oriented language or environment does not, in itself, ensure success in one's applications. It requires a different way of thinking, design discipline, techniques, and tools to exploit what the technology has to offer. In other words, it calls for a paradigm shift (as defined by Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolution, a classic text in the history of science).