Object-Oriented Analysis of South Florida Hydrologic Systems

Abstract

Object-oriented analysis is a methodology used to study real-world systems by identifying system components and behavior. An object-oriented analysis of south Florida hydrologic systems was conducted to determine how well this methodology organizes system information. The principal products of this analysis were three conceptual models characterizing the overall structure, behavior, and functionality of south Florida hydrologic systems. The object model identifies system components, or classes, their attributes, and their relationships with one another. The dynamic model presents class behavior, and the functional model shows how class attribute values are transformed. These models represent a variety of south Florida hydrologic systems and can be used to develop design specifications for a library of modular software objects, in which each object corresponds to a class in the object model.