Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at!schrefl From: schrefl@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Schrefl) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: ??Bidirectional Inheritence?? Message-ID: <3727@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Date: 24 Oct 90 19:48:00 GMT References: <6957@uwm.edu> Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna Lines: 9 that is, creating a new superclass for existing classes and factoring out attributes and methods common to the classes into the superclass. Our paper "Object class definition by generalization using upward inheritance" (M. Schrefl, E.J. Neuhold) IEEE 4th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, pp. 4-13 addresses this problem. Michael Schrefl Vienna University of Technology