Extending the Object-Oriented Paradigm for Supporting Complex Objects

In this paper a generalized object-oriented approach for complex object modeling is proposed,which ischaracterized by adding the concept of Meta-Class into the object-oriented paradigm for unifying thehandling of object types and primary data models,and also characterized by integrating the modeling ofobject type hierarchy and object configuration hierarchy.Concepts such as Compositional RelationshipObject,Face,Object Configuration Schema Expression,Object Skeleton are introduced to specify objectstructure,to support high degree of object sharing and to offer high degree of data independence.Operationson the class hierarchy,the object configuration structures and the object instances are developed respectivelywith distinguished semantics.This approach provides an extended object-oriented framewerk for handlingcomplex objects in any AI or database system(?).