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An object-oriented approach to a large scientific application

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Ira KaletAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 21, Issue 11

Pages 368 - 376

https://doi.org/10.1145/960112.28735

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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We used an object-oriented design to build a large scientific application: simulation of radiation therapy treatments for cancer. We provide features familiar in the graphics workstation world, including graphic editing of the proposed treatment, multiple views of the treatment in different windows, and computations which proceed concurrently as the input data are being edited. To make our system practical for the typical clinic we used a popular minicomputer and the vendor's operating system and compiler. This paper describes how we implemented objects, inheritance, message passing, windows, and concurrency in (almost) standard Pascal on a VAX under VMS.

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Jacky JWhite C(1990)Testing a 3-D radiation therapy planning programInternational Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics10.1016/0360-3016(90)90291-Q18:1(253-261)Online publication date: Jan-1990
https://doi.org/10.1016/0360-3016(90)90291-Q
Jacky JKalet I(1987)An object-oriented programming discipline for standard PascalCommunications of the ACM10.1145/30401.3040330:9(772-776)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/30401.30403
Sullivan KKalet INotkin D(1996)Evaluating The Mediator MethodIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/32.53695722:8(563-579)Online publication date: 1-Aug-1996
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/32.536957
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An object-oriented approach to a large scientific application
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques

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Jacky JWhite C(1990)Testing a 3-D radiation therapy planning programInternational Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics10.1016/0360-3016(90)90291-Q18:1(253-261)Online publication date: Jan-1990
https://doi.org/10.1016/0360-3016(90)90291-Q
Jacky JKalet I(1987)An object-oriented programming discipline for standard PascalCommunications of the ACM10.1145/30401.3040330:9(772-776)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1987
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/30401.30403
Sullivan KKalet INotkin D(1996)Evaluating The Mediator MethodIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/32.53695722:8(563-579)Online publication date: 1-Aug-1996
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/32.536957
Miller JGroning KSchulz GWhite CThomas D(1989)The object-oriented integration methodology of the Cadlab work station design environmentProceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference10.1145/74382.74535(807-810)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1989
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