Enhancing Objects' Autonomy through the Classification of Objects' Interactions

Abstract

The starting point of this research was the observation that object oriented classification mostly reflects one particular perspective which is ascribed to all the objects in the system. It was considered that this is an important limitation when trying to add autonomy to the objects in order to progress towards an agent oriented paradigm. In particular, we consider that agents may have the ability of classifying the external world instead of only relying on the classification being imposed. Therefore this paper proposes a way to add a new type of classification elements into an OO language such as the objects reason about other objects when providing/executing services based on what we call subjective classification.