Object-Oriented Technology

The core idea of this book is that object– oriented technology is a generic technology whose various technical aspects can be presented in a unified and consistent framework. This applies to both practical and formal aspects of object-oriented technology. Course tested in a variety of object-oriented courses, numerous examples, figures and exercises are presented in each chapter.

The approach in this book is based on typed technologies, and the core notions fit mainstream object-oriented languages such as Java and C#. The book promotes object-oriented constraints (assertions), their specification and verification. Object-oriented constraints apply to specification and verification of object-oriented programs, specification of the object-oriented platform, more advanced concurrent models, database integrity constraints and object-oriented transactions, their specification and verification.

Typed Objects.- Assertions.- Virtual Platform.- Type Systems.- Concurrent Models.- Object Databases.- Types and Constraints.

Suad Alagic holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been a Computer Science Professor at multiple universities for many years. His research areas are Object-Oriented Systems, Database Systems, and Programming Languages and Systems. Suad Alagic previously published three books with Springer. His first book on assertions  was  translated into Japanese, Russian and Polish. Suad Alagic is the lead author of numerous papers, object-oriented in particular, that were published in the proceedings of highly visible conferences and in prestigious journals. He has had research grants from NSF and DOD and was an invited staff member of ODMG. Suad Alagic held visiting research positions at Microsoft Research and University of Tokyo. His extensive teaching experience includes a variety of object-oriented courses.