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Behavioural Modelling of Formal Documents and Active Instruments

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Brian Rossiter

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Abstract

Active documents have dynamical prescriptive and inferential properties. Electronic publishing has greater functionality for achieving these because there are some difficulties which arise when the physical reality of documents is not available. For consistent operations, a systems analysis of the activity is needed with representations like entity-life histories. Careful attention has to be paid to the choice of a platform language which needs to be strong on behavioural characteristics. Active documents play a key role in legal transactions and the law is an important customer of electronic publishing. As an illustration, a fully-worked example is therefore given of an implementation for a bill of lading which has been designed at Newcastle using an object-oriented graphical approach.


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Author(s): Rossiter BN, Huntley KG, Heather MA

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 1993

Pages: 22

Print publication date: 01/12/1993

Source Publication Date: December 1993

Report Number: 465

Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/465.pdf


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