Our applications are complicated enough without adding any more. Here's a way to think about your objects that allows you to dramatically simplify your object model, provided you're willing to turn ...

When it comes to inheritance, relational database theory and object-oriented programming have more in common than you might think. Understanding that overlap is critical in designing the object model ...

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This article proposes an object-oriented analysis (OOA) technique based on the unified modeling language (UML). The technique emphasizes its OOA process, that is composed of the following activities: ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 45, No. 10 (Oct., 1994), pp. 1108-1122 (15 pages) Military communications networks are large complex systems; their physical dynamics, composition ...

We review recent work on computational models of focal visual attention, with emphasis on the bottom-up, saliency- or image-based control of attentional deployment. We highlight five important trends ...