January 18 Houston-Area Meeting of SCOPE: Blackboard Booch/OMT

January 18 Houston-Area Meeting of SCOPE: Blackboard Booch/OMT

[Todd Dunnavant]

The following meeting notice might be of interest to people in the Houston, 
Texas area.

    Space Center Object-Oriented Projects and Engineering
               (SCOPE) - Meeting Announcement
                      January 18, 1995
             "Blackboard Booch/OMT" by David Weller
                              
On October 3rd, Jim Rumbaugh joined Rational to partner up
with Grady Booch.  While many eagerly await the merged
notation, Rational has indicated it will be at least a year
before anything is presented.  Why wait?  Open your present
early!  Come join David Weller as he discusses "Blackboard
Booch/OMT", a simplified notation that merges the features of
Booch's notation with OMT.  This presentation is unique in that
it focuses on ergonomic issues associated with creating OO
diagrams (ever tried drawing a decent cloud on a blackboard
without embarassing yourself?).  The presentation will be
complete with examples taken from Booch's "Object Oriented
Analysis and Design, Second Edition" and Rumbaugh et al.'s
"OMT" book.

Come join the discussion!  At the end of the presentation will
be an "open session" where developers are invited to share
their joys and frustrations with either technique.  Remember,
we're all in this together!

Date:       January 18, 1995

Location:   FOREST Room (Room 1416(?)), University of Houston - Clear Lake     
                 2700 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77058

Schedule:   5:30 -  6:00    networking
                   6:00 -  7:00    presentation
                   7:00 -  7:30    questions/discussion

Cost:       Free - members and 1st time quests
               $5.00 - non members

Parking:    Parking tokens for the vistors lot will be  distributed at the 
                 meeting.          

More Info:  Contact Colin Atkinson, 713-283-3878




Regards,

Todd Dunnavant   Houston, Texas   tdunnava@neosoft.com

Re: January 18 Houston-Area Meeting of SCOPE: Blackboard Booch/OMT

[Colin James III]

In article <tdunnava.154.000FC80E@neosoft.com>, Todd Dunnavant 
<tdunnava@Neosoft.Com> posted in essence:

> This meeting notice may be of interest to the Houston area: 
> January 18, 1995 "Blackboard Booch/OMT" by David Weller


Designs using Rumbaugh's Object Management Technique (OMT) and Grady 
Booch's method (ever expanding to include all other methods, and hence a 
mother of all methods) can not be verified correct using predicate logic.

OMT and Booch are also not seamless and scalable and do not support 
software contracting in case tools.

Furthermore, OMT and Booch show object communications in one-dimensional 
sequencing diagrams (named trace or interaction diagrams) but can not be 
extended to any greater complexity in higher-dimensions.

[See Kim Walden and Jean-Marc Nerson, Seamless object-oriented software 
architecture: analysis and design of reliable systems, Prentice Hall UK, 
1995, ISBN 0-13-031303-3]

Business Object Notation [BON] which suffers from none of the flawed 
logic and defects of Booch and OMT above.  A good place to take such a 
course is TOOLS '95 in Versailles on March 6/10.  

BON is currently supported by EiffelCASE from Interactive Software 
Engineering, Inc [ISE], Goleta, CA, (805) 685 - 1006, info@eiffel.com.


Colin James III
CEC Services
2080 Kipling St
Lakewood, CO  80215-1502  USA

(303) 231 - 9437  Voice
(303) 231 - 9438  Facsimile
(303) 231 - 9434  Data

cjames@stout.entertain.com

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