A Visual Object-Oriented Unification System
Abstract
This report introduces a software design platform which departs from the style of most design tools by acting as an extension to, rather than a replacement for, existing design tools. The ultimate goal of this system is to unify and integrate the various functions provided by text editors, graphics editors, text formatters, hyper-text and structured decomposition tools. It uses a very general data structure which can manifest itself in a variety of visual forms while enabling the user to easily create abd manipulate the objects it represents. This tool is useful for creating large, general purpose, hierarchically structured programs, data structures, documents, and other similar objects. Moreover, this system is designed to allow for a wide variety of functions to be performed on these data objects (such as graph traversal or functional mapping), both from within the environment as well as externally (for example, mapping concurrent computations onto parallel architectures using a post-processor). This system is also considered to be a springboard for investigating future directions in software design and information management.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 16, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA206228
Entities
People
- Dulce Ponceleon
- Joseph Oliger
- Ramani Pichumani
Organizations
- Stanford University