Concept-Oriented Blog

Concept-oriented programming (CoP) is a next generation programming paradigm. It is based on using concepts as the main programming construct. A concept is a pair of two classes: an object class and a reference class. Instances of the object class, objec… more »

1. Separation of business methods (BMs) and representation and access (RA) methods. Business methods are target methods of objects which are called explicitly in the source code. Representation and access methods are called implicitly when objects are be… more »

Concept-oriented model is based on the following main principles: 1. Separation of physical and logical structures [duality]. In CoM any elements is defined as a member of two separate structures which are referred to as physical and logical. The phy… more »

Here are some fundamental characteristics of references:Reference does not have a concrete position in space and hence does not have its own reference, i.e., references represent themselves by valueReference exists within objects as their parts (fi… more »

Here are some fundamental characteristics of objects:Each object has a concrete position in space, which is constant and cannot be changed. Having a position or coordinate means also object existence. Objects are created with some position and then d… more »