ResearchIndex Home D. Tsichritzis, E. Fiume, S. Gibbs, O. Nierstrasz. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1987.
Objects can add or drop methods during run time, as well as exchange methods among themselves.
D. Tsichritzis, E. Fiume, S. Gibbs, O. Nierstrasz. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1987. Maintenance by an outside expert of knowledge stored within an application system is intrusive and risky. The end user should make the decision when new knowledge should be incorporated. The objects, or knos, are highly independent, active entities that may move between object environments.