A synthesis of object-oriented and functional and ideas in the design of a distributed software engineering environment

In a software engineering environment, it is essential to describe the structures and behavior of different processes. Once the processes have been described, it would also be desirable to use the description for consistently controlling the execution of the processes. In this paper we describe an extension of the conventional object-oriented paradigm which provides an integrated process description/execution environment that allows a user to describe a process with multiple methodologies and to review a process from multiple views. Once a process has been described in detail, the environment can monitor the behavior of application processes, derive the inter-dependencies among different activities in a process, and check the consistency among the activities.

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HELIOS: A Medical Object-Oriented Software Engineering Environment

Proceedings. The Third International Conference on Image Management and Communication in Patient Care ◽

10.1109/imac.1993.665449 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

F.C. Jean ◽

P. Degoulet ◽

M.C. Jaulent ◽

D. Sauquet ◽

T. Thelliez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Medical Object ◽

Engineering Environment

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Rationale and Design Considerations for a Semantic Mediator in Health Information Systems

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634545 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (04/05) ◽

pp. 518-526 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

D. Sauquet ◽

M.-C. Jaulent ◽

E. Zapletal ◽

M. Lavril ◽

P. Degoulet

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Software Engineering ◽

Health Information ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Heterogeneous Systems ◽

Health Information Systems ◽

Semantic Interoperability ◽

Point Of View ◽

Current State ◽

Engineering Environment

AbstractRapid development of community health information networks raises the issue of semantic interoperability between distributed and heterogeneous systems. Indeed, operational health information systems originate from heterogeneous teams of independent developers and have to cooperate in order to exchange data and services. A good cooperation is based on a good understanding of the messages exchanged between the systems. The main issue of semantic interoperability is to ensure that the exchange is not only possible but also meaningful. The main objective of this paper is to analyze semantic interoperability from a software engineering point of view. It describes the principles for the design of a semantic mediator (SM) in the framework of a distributed object manager (DOM). The mediator is itself a component that should allow the exchange of messages independently of languages and platforms. The functional architecture of such a SM is detailed. These principles have been partly applied in the context of the HEllOS object-oriented software engineering environment. The resulting service components are presented with their current state of achievement.

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