Research Seminar - March 22, 2002

Expanding the Envelope of Object Oriented Approach

Abstract:

In this presentation we will introduce a new approach to systems development, namely Fuzzy Object and Behaviour Modelling (FOBM) technique. It is anticipated that in the next ten years the face of computing will change more towards intelligent agents, autonomous robots and virtual characters created in 3-dimensional worlds. In such environments programming style must cater for the increased complexity and dealing with noisy, vague and incomplete information. Object oriented approach to systems development is a robust and a proven technique to develop software however when it comes to reprsenting and dealing with noisy, incomplete and vague information it is not as efficient as some soft computing techniques. FOBM is a fusion of the object oriented approach with soft computing techniques and introduces many new concepts and integrates and enhances some existing ones such as message and event broadcasting, weighing and attenuation, degrees of existence and relations, continuously variant objects, and tolerant environments.