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This article deals with an original view on the Ambler’s approach to the object-oriented class normalisation from the perspective of conceptual modelling. This idea gives the possibility of using the object-oriented class normalisation rules not only for the design of composition structure of classes but also for the inheritance and inheritance-like structure of classes. This article also proposes a new systemisation of the object-oriented class normalisation and suggests further research. The authors applied their practical experience not only in teaching object-oriented programming at a university but also many years of experience in software development, especially in Smalltalk, C++, Java and C#.
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Merunka, V., Wijekoon, H., Shegolev, B. (2019). Object-Oriented Class Normalisation from a Conceptual Modelling Perspective. In: Pergl, R., Babkin, E., Lock, R., Malyzhenkov, P., Merunka, V. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 366. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35646-0_3
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