Lee Sang Bum

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 1103-1111, Sep. 1996
10.3745/KIPSTE.1996.3.5.1103,   PDF Download:

Abstract

The design of distributed systems is difficult to achieve as the execution patterns of distributed systems are typically more complex than those of non-distributed systems, Thus, research toward development of design methods for distributed systems is quitely needed. As object-oriented systems and distributed systems share similar properties, the combination of these two is somehow natural. In this work, a design method of applying object-oriented techniques to the design of distributed systems is introduced. The goal of the method in this paper is to provide assistance to the process of specifying a formal object-oriented specification from graphical representation specification inputs such as data flow diagrams,, state transition diagrams and Petri nets. It addresses the extraction of objects, operations and relationships from the problem domain with emphasis on the specification of the characteristics of distributed systems, This object identification method is supported by a knowledge base that provides for the automated analysis and reasontin about objects and their relationships. The final object model is represented in a format which provides a formal mechanism for representing the object information.

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