Hi Crista:

is this what you were looking for?

-- Karl
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The first references to succinct traversal specifications and
adaptive software:

The first TECHNICAL REPORT: (is also the first of all other publication
categories)

@TECHREPORT{first-TR-adaptive-software,
  AUTHOR = "Karl Lieberherr and Cun Xiao and Ignacio {Silva-Lepe}",
  TITLE = "Propagation Patterns: Graph-Based Specifications of Cooperative Behavior",
  INSTITUTION = "Northeastern University",
  YEAR = 1991,
  MONTH = "September",
  NUMBER = "NU-CCS-91-14",
  }

The first REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

@INPROCEEDINGS{karl:comp-enh,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr",
  BOOKTITLE = "Information Processing '92, 12th World Computer Congress",
  TITLE = "Component Enhancement: An Adaptive Reusability Mechanism for Groups of Collaborating Classes",
  YEAR = "1992",
  ADDRESS = "Madrid, Spain",
  PAGES = "179-185",
  EDITOR = "J. van Leeuwen", 
  PUBLISHER = "Elsevier" }

@string{case = "International Workshop on CASE"}
@INPROCEEDINGS{impl-team:case92,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Walter H{\"u}rsch and Ignacio {Silva-Lepe} and
  Cun Xiao",
  TITLE = "Experience with a Graph-Based Propagation Pattern Programming Tool",
  BOOKTITLE = case,
  YEAR = "1992",
  ADDRESS = "Montr{\'e}al, Canada",
  PAGES = "114-119",
    EDITOR =      "Gene Forte et al.",
  PUBLISHER = "IEEE Computer Society"
  }

First REFEREED JOURNAL publication:

@string{ieee-se = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering"}
@ARTICLE{first-journal-paper-adaptive-software,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Cun Xiao",
  TITLE = "{Object-Oriented Software Evolution}",
  JOURNAL = ieee-se,
  YEAR = 1993,
  PAGES = "313-343",
  MONTH = "April",
  VOLUME = "19" ,
  NUMBER = "4"
}

The first INVITED paper:
The following paper was invited by Ed Yourdon:

@ARTICLE{huersch-seiter-xiao,
  AUTHOR = "Walter L. H{\"u}rsch and Linda M. Seiter and Cun Xiao",
  TITLE = "{In any CASE: Demeter}",
  JOURNAL = "The American Programmer",
  YEAR = 1991,
  PAGES = "46-56",
  MONTH = "October",
  VOLUME = "4",
  NUMBER = "10"
  }

The first TUTORIALS on adaptive software:

@TECHREPORT{lieber-tutorial:92,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr",
  TITLE = "{The Demeter Method for Object-oriented Software Engineering}",
  INSTITUTION = "Northeastern University",
  YEAR = 1992,
  NOTE = "Tutorial Notes for OOPSLA '91, '92, ECOOP '92, ELECTRO '92, NTU '91, '92"
  }

	From lopes@parc.xerox.com Tue Dec  5 18:57:50 1995
	To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu
	Subject: First reference

	Karl,
	what is the first (in time) reference for traversals in the literature?

	what is the first (in choice) for you?

	-Crista