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Within the Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) paradigm there exists a lack of consensus as to how or where to start object abstraction as part of object modelling. In order to gain a common or less ambiguous formalism for abstracting objects it is proposed that other scientific traditions and disciplines be reviewed. The research project of which this paper forms part investigates the concept of viewpoint analysis for modelling systems as would be observed when abstracting system models from UoD domain vocabulary as discourse.
This paper specifically investigates the concept of “viewer” as found in the object abstraction paradigm offered by Booch [Booch 1994 ] from a semiotic sign abstraction framework Deely et al. [Deely 1990] and subjectivist analysis techniques (eg. MEASUR) Stamper et al. [Stamper 1994]. The discipline of semiotics (the science of signs) was selected as it contains a rich diversity of opportunity encompassing significant theoretical and abstraction foundations to be discovered from the study of linguistics and discourse analysis techniques. The resultant description from this research provides a conceptual base for object viewer and vocabulary identification where a single objective object abstraction could be seen to be inadequate.
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Calway, B.A. (1995). Semiotic approach for object abstraction. In: Falkenberg, E.D., Hesse, W., Olivé, A. (eds) Information System Concepts. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34870-4_24
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