The Semantic Web is the next step of the current Web where information will become more machine-understandable to support effective data discovery and integration. Hierarchical sc...
Theodore Dalamagas, Alexandra Meliou, Timos K. Sel...
Inner classes in object-oriented languages play a role similar to nested function definitions in functional languages, allowing an object to export other objects with direct acces...
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been designed to be a full standard notation for Object-Oriented Modelling. UML is a rather complete set of notations, but it lacks of form...