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Evolving Objects: Conceptual Description of Adaptive Information Systems

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Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling (DEMM 2000, FoMLaDO 2000)

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Abstract

Today, information systems are essential parts of large organizations. Since such kinds of systems have a very long life-span, they have to be adapted to new changing requirements occurring during their lifetime. Evolution must be regarded not only at the object state level, but also at the object behavior level. Especially, the explicit handling of (behavior) evolution on the conceptual level is necessary. For that, we introduce the notion of evolving objects as basic building blocks of information systems. The behavior of such an object is divided into a rigid and an evolving part. The rigid behavior is ideally stable for the whole life-span of the object; the evolving behavior can be changed dynamically at runtime. In this paper, we present an extended specification framework for modeling evolving objects. Particularly, this framework provides the basis to explicitly specify behavior evolution.

This research was partially supported by the ESPRIT Basic Research Working Groups ASPIRE (No. 22704) and FireWorks (No. 23531) and by the German Science Foundation DFG (SPP 1064: SA 465/19).

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  1. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme, Postfach 4120, D-39016, Magdeburg, Germany

    Gunter Saake

  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Can Türker

  3. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, Oettingenstr. 67, D-80538, München, Germany

    Stefan Conrad

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  2. Faculty of Management and Organization, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Bert de Brock

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Munich, Oettingenstraße 67, 80538, Munich, Germany

    Stefan Conrad

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Saake, G., Türker, C., Conrad, S. (2001). Evolving Objects: Conceptual Description of Adaptive Information Systems. In: Balsters, H., de Brock, B., Conrad, S. (eds) Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling. DEMM FoMLaDO 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2065. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48196-6_10

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