© 1996 by British Computer Society
Object-Oriented Modelling based on Logbooks

1 Department of Information Systems, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL-6526 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2 Edmond Research & Development B.V., Van Triestraat 1a, 6512 CW Nijmegen, The Netherlands
In this paper the notion of logbook is introduced as a common basis for various models to be produced during system analysis. A logbook has a unifying format which contains a complete description of the history of some Universe of Discourse. It is intended as a structuring mechanism for initial specifications based on natural language. A typing mechanism is provided as an abstraction mechanism for logbook instances, leading to object-oriented analysis models.
Received October 28, 1996. revised February 17, 1997.
* Department of Information Systems, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Edmond Research & Development B.V., Van Trieststraat 1a, 6512 CW Nijmegen, The Netherlands