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Definition of Events and Their Effects in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages

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Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004 (ER 2004)

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Most current conceptual modeling languages and methods do not model events as entities. We argue that, at least in Object-Oriented (O-O) languages, modeling events as entities provides substantial benefits. We show that a method for behavioral modeling that deals with event and entity types in a uniform way may yield better behavioral schemas. The proposed method makes an extensive use of language constructs such as constraints, derived types, derivation rules, type specializations and operations, which are present in all complete O-O conceptual modeling languages. The method can be adapted to most O-O languages. In this paper we explain its adaptation to the UML.

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  1. Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034, Barcelona (Catalonia)

    Antoni Olivé

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  1. Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Via Vasca Navale 79, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Atzeni

  2. Computer Science Department, University of California, 3731 Boelter Hall, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Wesley Chu

  3. Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Hongjun Lu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 200433, China

    Shuigeng Zhou

  5. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Tok-Wang Ling

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Olivé, A. (2004). Definition of Events and Their Effects in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages. In: Atzeni, P., Chu, W., Lu, H., Zhou, S., Ling, TW. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_12

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