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Refactoring as Meta Programming?
By Dave Thomas |
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| Refactoring is widely acknowledged as one of the best
practices of OO programming. It has been widely practiced in the functional
and procedural community in one form or other for many years. Refactoring
is a process that takes an existing program and improves it by transforming
the program into a new program that is an improved version of the initial
program. |
Classification Theory
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The Theory of Classification,
Part 16: Rules of Extension and the Typing of Inheritance
By Anthony J.H. Simons
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Most object-oriented languages have restrictions
on the types of overriding methods, to ensure that the resulting subclass
is still type compatible with the superclass. This requires more precise
rules about the typing of  , the inheritance operator. |
OO Requirements Engineering
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Are Your Requirements Complete?
By Donald Firesmith
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| What exactly does it mean for requirements
to be complete? And what requirements work products are being referred
to: individual requirements or requirements documents? And given that
there is limited schedule and budget with which to perform requirements
elicitation, analysis, specification, and management, just how complete
should the requirements be? |
Java at Large
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Resource Bundling
for Distributed Computing
By Douglas Lyon
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| Wouldn’t it be nice if a Java compiler
could make sure that our resources were present, before run-time? In
this way, we trade off a run-time error for a compile-time error. Some
techniques are presented that allow resources to be integrated directly
into the source code. |
Strategic Software Engineering
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Community
By John D. McGregor
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| Communities evolve over time. One way to evaluate
the maturity of a technical community is to use the innovation adoption
scale by Rogers : innovators, early adoptors, early majority, late majority,
and laggards. A community is formed by a few innovators. |
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REFEREED ARTICLES |
The Platform Based-Agents to Test and Evaluate Software Architecture
By Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Samir Benarif and Nicole Levy
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Architecture conception is a difficult and
time consuming process, requiring advanced skills from the software architect.
The tasks of an architect are alleviated if means can be provided to
generate architectures that can be evaluated with respect to functional
and non functional requirements. This paper discusses an easier approach
for evaluating software architecture.
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E-Bunny: A Dynamic Compiler for Embedded Java
Virtual Machines
By Mourad Debbabi, Abdelouahed Gherbi, Lamia Ketari, Chamseddine Talhi,
Hamdi Yahyaoui, Sami Zhioua, and Nadia Tawbi
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The primary objective of our work is to come
up with an efficient, lightweight and low-footprint accelerated embedded
Java Virtual Machine. This is achieved by the means of integrating a
selective dynamic compiler that we called E-Bunny into the J2ME/CLDC
virtual machine KVM.
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Ontology Modeling and MDA
By Dragan Djuric, Dragan Gasevic and Vladan Devedzic |
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The paper presents Ontology Definition Metamodel
(ODM) that enables using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standards in
ontological engineering.
Other similar metamodels are based on ontology representation languages,
such as RDF(S), DAML+OIL, etc. However, none of these other solutions
uses the recent W3C effort – The Web Ontology Language (OWL).
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Foundations for MDA-based Forward Engineering
By Liliana Favre
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Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an emerging technology that is
supposed to provide a technical framework for information integration
and tools interoperation; many UML tools claim to be compliant with
it. Model-to-model transformations are essential in MDA.
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A Java Implementation of
the Branch and Bound Algorithm: The Asymmetric Traveling Salesman
Problem
By Pawel Kalczynski |
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This paper revisits some 20-year-old algorithms and contributes
to object technology by offering a description of the model and implementation
of a generic package for solving discrete minimization problems with
branch and bound method. In particular, the package is implemented for
and tested on the Traveling Salesman Problem with asymmetric cost matrices.
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A Unified Superstructure for UML
By Andy Evans, Paul Sammut, James S. Willans, Alan Moore, and Girish Maskeri |
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key aspect of successfully using UML is understanding the semantics
of the notations. UML 2 will increase the already substantial collection
of notations supported by UML 1.x. At the same time, this will augment
the difficulty users experience in understanding semantics. In this
paper we propose that while the diverse notations may render concepts
differently, the concepts can often be considered semantically equivalent.
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My best books of 2004
An overview by Charles Ashbacher
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