A genetics-based approach to inheritance modeling

Other Title(s)

منهجية مبنية على علم الجينات لنمذجة الوراثة

Dissertant

Hammudah, Darien Musa Muhammad

Thesis advisor

al-Ghul, Said

University

Philadelphia University

Faculty

Faculty of Information Technology

Department

Department of Computer Science

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2012

English Abstract

-The conventional Inheritance concept which is adopted in the current Object Oriented Programming (OOP), where it is acting on "is-a" hierarchy model, has some defects.

Where OOP is trying to be more close to the real life, it is still far from genetics principles.

Inheritance means that the child class can inherit, and get everything that is public in the parent class automatically.

This process has solved many problems, but it does not simulate what is really happening in our life, where each object can gain just the needed traits from the parent class.

That means the conventional inheritance is not selective and is generating identical objects.

While conventional Inheritance acts on “is-a” hierarchy model, the works that introduced the selective inheritance were also done on this model.

The inspiration from genetics has led to a selective inheritance acting upon a “Composed by” model rather than the “is-a” model; where in biology, the needed traits are selected from the Genome which holds all the aspect traits.

Those traits are classified into several classes according to "Composed by" relation.

After evaluation, it has shown that the selective inheritance that acts on "composed by" model is better than the selective inheritance over “is-a” hierarchy mode

Main Subjects

Mathematics

Topics

• Computer software

No. of Pages

74

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-546114