This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First
International Symposiumorganized by the Japan Society for
Software Science and Technology. The symposium was held in
Kanazawa, Japan, November 4-6, 1993 and attracted many
researchers from academia and industry as well as ambitioned
practitioners.
Object technologies, in particular object-oriented
programming, object-oriented databases, and software object
bases, currently attract much attention and hold a great
promise of future research and development in diverse areas
of advanced software.
The volume contains besides 6 invited presentations by
renown researchers and 25 contributed papers carefully
selected by an internationalprogram committee from a total
of 92 submissions.