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The paper aims at proving that some object-oriented fundamental principles provide new suitable mechanisms for the analysis and the specification of complex systems. Three principles are presented and discussed in the paper through a case study. The locality principle allows to concentrate on one object, stressing its structure and behavior through the notion of life cycle, the refinement principle...