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Access to information on the Demeter System
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On the world-wide-web, please use the command:

xmosaic http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber   
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A book on adaptive software ("The Art of Growing Adaptive Object-Oriented
Software", by Karl Lieberherr) and the educational version of the
Demeter Tools/C++ will be sold at the end of 1995 (is available!)
by PWS Publishing Company, one of the top five textbook publishers.
PWS belongs to Wadsworth, Inc. which itself belongs to International
Thomson Publishing. If you are interested in the early adoption
program (you get software and book in beta form), 
please send mail to Mike_Sugarman@pws.com and demeter@ccs.neu.edu.

To make it easier for you to find the right documents through FTP, we have 
included an index which you can search with your editor.

INDEX =======================================
To find
papers related to pattern language: search for "Adaptive"
a survey of the Demeter Method and Tools: search for "survey"
papers related to adaptive software: search for "Adaptive"
papers related to reuse: search for "reuse"
schema evolution related papers: search for "evolution"
Law of Demeter related papers: search for "Law"
papers on visualization of object-oriented programs: search for "Adaptive"
papers and thesis on contracts: search for "contract"
papers on reengineering: search for "reengineering"
software supporting Demeter Method: search for "Demeter International"
Ph.D. thesis from the Demeter research group: search for theses

Once you have read the survey article, 

LSLX93-adaptive-programming.* (in Communications of the ACM, 
  May 1994, pages 94-101, intro. to Adaptive Software)

you might want to go through the remaining papers in the following order:

``Object-Oriented Software Evolution'',
with Cun Xiao,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, April 1993,
L92b-learn-oosd-Demeter.*
Ber91-obj-pres-cd-trans.*
LBSL91-from-objects-to-cl.*
L92a-component-enhancement.*
etc.

The Demeter Method is made practical through the Demeter Tools/C++
which are commercialized by Demeter International, Inc., a
Massachusetts company. A commercial release is being prepared
and is available for beta-testing on SUN and DEC
and HP stations.
For more information send mail to demeter@ccs.neu.edu
from where it will be forwarded to the company.

Papers about the Demeter System:
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The Demeter System consists of the Method and the Tools.
Below is a list of papers which we have published, 
primarily about the Demeter Method.

The Demeter Method is the only software development method
which produces adaptive software due to a novel delayed binding
mechanism of methods to classes.
If you are interested in how to produce adaptive software, please
read the papers which have "Adaptive" in the title or explanation.
(Use your editor on this file.)

The papers are copyrighted by the individual authors
and/or organizations (e.g., ACM, IEEE, Springer Verlag,
Northeastern University), but the copyright law gives
you certain rights: The use of a
copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction for 
non-commercial purposes such as
teaching (including multiple copies for class room use), scholarship, or
research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Commercial use of the material which we distribute by ftp is
not allowed, unless we give permission in writing. 

Some of our papers are available in one package by anonymous ftp from

ftp.ccs.neu.edu 

in directory pub/research/demeter/documents

Use the following command sequence to copy the Demeter papers:

% ftp ftp.ccs.neu.edu 
Name ( ... ): ftp
Password: your-email-address
ftp> cd pub/research/demeter/documents
ftp> ls
ftp> binary
ftp> get papers.tar.Z
ftp> quit
% uncompress papers.tar.Z
% tar xf papers.tar
% cd papers

If you want to copy individual papers and not all at once, go to 
directory pub/research/demeter/documents/papers and retrieve them
individually.

If you want to use the Demeter Method for teaching,
go to pub/research/demeter/documents and retrieve file class-packet.tar.Z.

(WARNING: THIS IS MORE THAN A YEAR OLD AND IS OUTDATED. LATEST
VERSION AVAILABLE ON REQUEST TO lieber@ccs.neu.edu)

If you want individual class handouts and not all in one package,
you can retrieve them from pub/research/demeter/documents/class-packet.
File book.ps contains a few chapters of a book on the Demeter Method.

Print the files as follows:
*.ps  as Postscript files (this will print the book)
g-*   as text files (will print the gentle introductions to tools)
cd-*  as text files (defines the input languages to the tools)
*.txt as text files (will print homeworks, exams and solutions, etc.)

File pub/research/demeter/documents contains the Bibtex source for
citations of our papers.

pub/research/demeter/documents/ecoop92.ps contains the viewgraphs
for the ECOOP '92 demo of the Demeter Tools/C++.

theses:

pub/people/holland/chps.ps.Z contains Ian Holland's thesis on contracts:
``The Design and Representation of Object-Oriented Components.''
Completed 1993.

pub/people/pberg/thesis-94.ps contains Paul Bergstein's thesis on evolution:
``Managing the Evolution of Object-Oriented Systems''
Completed 1994.

pub/people/nacho/thesis.ps contains Ignacio Silva-Lepe's thesis on reverse
engineering:
``Techniques for Reverse-Engineering and Re-engineering into the 
  Object-Oriented Paradigm''.
Completed 1994.

pub/people/cunxiao/thesis.ps contains Cun Xiao's thesis on 
adaptive software:
``Adaptive Software:
   Automatic Navigation Through Partially Specified Data Structures''
Completed 1994.

Contents of the file pub/research/demeter/documents/papers.tar.Z and 
directory pub/research/demeter/documents/papers :

BL91-incr-cd-learning.ps
  ECOOP '91: Incremental learning of classes from objects, schema evolution
Ber91-obj-pres-cd-trans.ps
  OOPSLA '91: Calculus for object-equivalent class transformations, 
  schema evolution
HSX91-in-any-CASE.ps
  American Programmer (Ed Yourdon): An easy introduction to Demeter Method, survey
Hol91-Specify-Reuse-Components-Contracts.ps
  ECOOP '92: reuse, applications of contracts
Hur91-demeter-tools-user-guide.ps
  Unpublished: User's Guide to Demeter Tools/C++
L92a-component-enhancement.ps
  IFIP '92: Adaptive software, new reuse mechanisms, schema evolution, Law 
L92b-learn-oosd-Demeter.ps
  ECOOP and OOPSLA tutorials: Syllabus for teaching Demeter Method  
L92c-HardwareDescrLang-Zeus.ps
  IEEE Design and Test 1992: About the origins of Demeter
LBSL91-from-objects-to-cl.ps
  Software Engineering Journal 1991: Class optimization
LH89-law-of-demeter.ps
  IEEE Software Magazine: Law of Demeter
LHSLX92-pp-experience.ps
  CASE '92: Adaptive software, experience report, brief project description, 
  survey
LHX91-cd-extensions.ps
  Formal Aspects of Computing (Springer Verlag): Relationships between class structures, schema evolution
LSLX93-adaptive-programming.ps
  Communications of the ACM, Adaptive object-oriented software, Law, survey 
LX91b-kernel-lang-for-ood.ps
  Submitted: Theoretical foundations for class dictionaries 
LX93a-foundations-oo-data-modeling.ps
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 1993, design rule 
  checking, schema recursion
LXSL91-propagation-patterns.ps
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering: Adaptive Software, formal definition of propagation patterns, 
  schema evolution, reuse, Law
Lie91b-behavioral-objectives.ps
  Extension of OOPSLA '89 paper: Spoon feeding the Demeter Method 
demeter-system-publications.ps
  Unpublished: An elaborate version of this document, with abstracts
gentle-demeter.ps
  Unpublished: Gentle tour through the Demeter Tools
what-is-demeter.ps
  Unpublished: brief description
SL93-proc-to-oo-reveng-meth.ps
  TOOLS '93: Identification of objects and responsibilities in a procedural
  program. Empirical method.
  reengineering
SL94-pp-abs.ps
  Synthesizing Adaptive software.
K94-behavior-evol-CAiSE.ps
  Evolution, Adaptive software.
LL94-synch-patterns.ps
  ECOOP '94: Abstracting Process-to-Function Relations in Concurrent
    Object-Oriented Applications. Adaptive Software.

Current contents of file pub/research/demeter/documents/class-packet.tar.Z and 
directory pub/research/demeter/documents/class-packet :
(There is some overlap with the papers directory)

HSX91-in-any-CASE.ps
Hur91-demeter-tools-user-guide.ps
L92a-component-enhancement.ps
L92a-learn-oosd-Demeter.ps
  Extended course syllabus
LHSLX92-pp-experience.ps
  CASE '92: Adaptive software, experience report, brief project description, 
  survey
LX93a-foundations-oo-data-modeling.ps
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 1993, design rule
      checking, schema recursion, axioms
LXSL91-propagation-patterns.ps
  Papers
acknowledgements.ps
  Who is behind the Demeter System?
answers-f-1205-sp92.txt
answers-f-1205-w92.txt
answers-f-3360-f91.txt
answers-m-1205-sp92.txt*
answers-m-1205-w92.txt*
  Exam answers
assign1.txt
assign2.txt
assign3.txt
assign4.txt
assign5.txt
  Assignments
book.ps
  A few book chapters: The Art of Growing Software
c-use-tut1.txt
c-use-tut2.txt
c-use-tut3.txt
  Three easy tutorials
cd-class-dictionaries
cd-growth-plans
cd-intermediate
cd-object-graphs
cd-propagation-patterns
  Self descriptions of the Demeter System
drawing-instr.ps
  How to draw class dictionary graphs.
final-f-1205-sp92.txt*
final-f-1205-w92.txt*
final-f-3360-f91.txt*
  Final exams
g-cd-learn
g-compare
g-demo
g-gp-check
g-parse-generate
g-pp-abs
g-printing
g-propagate
g-propagate-advanced
g-sem-check
g-sem-check-n
g-test-gen
g-tree-prop
  Gentle introductions to individual tools
gentle-demeter.ps
  A Gentle tour of the Demeter System
index-sorted.txt
index.txt
midterm-m-1205-sp92.txt*
midterm-m-1205-w92.txt*
  Midterm exams
questions-and-answers.txt*
  Often asked questions and their answers
quick.txt*
  Quick reference Guide
sysdescr.ps
  System description

Karl Lieberherr
Director, Center for Software Sciences
Northeastern University
College of Computer Science
125 Cullinane Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
U.S.A.

phone: (617) 437 2077 (office)
fax:   (617) 437 5121
Internet: lieber@CCS.neu.EDU

Papers without author information or with author information
introduced by "with" are authored or
coauthored by Karl Lieberherr.

\bi
\item
``Object-oriented programming with class dictionaries,''
{\em Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, 1(2)},
1988.

\item
``Demeter: A CASE study of software growth through parameterized classes,''
with A.J. Riel,
{\em Journal on Object-Oriented Programming, 1(3)},
1988. A preliminary version of this paper was published in
{\em International Conference on Software Engineering, Singapore}, 1988,
pp 254-264.

\item
``Object-Oriented Programming: An Objective Sense Of Style,''
with Ian Holland and Arthur Riel,
{\em Proceedings of Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems,
Languages and Applications}, San Diego, CA, September 1988, pp 323-334,
in Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 23(11).
A short version of this paper appeared in IEEE Computer Open Channel,
June 1988, pp 79-80. 

\item
``Formulations and Benefits of the Law of Demeter,''
with Ian Holland,
{\em SIGPLAN Notices 1989},
24(3), pp 67-78.

\item
``Tools for preventive software maintenance,''
with Ian Holland,
{\em Conference on Software Maintenance},
IEEE, Miami Beach, Florida, 1989, pp 2-13.
Law of Demeter.

\item
``Contributions to teaching object-oriented design and programming'',
with Arthur Riel,
{\em Proceedings of Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems,
Languages and Applications}, New Orleans, LA, October 1989, pp 11-22.

\item
``Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs'',
with Ian Holland,
{\em IEEE Software}, September, 1989, 38-48.
Law of Demeter.

\item
``Abstraction of Object-Oriented Data Models'',
with Paul Bergstein and Nacho Silva-Lepe,
{\em Proceedings of International Conference on Entity-Relationship
Approach}, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990, 81-94, Elsevier.

\item
``From objects to classes: algorithms for optimal object-oriented
design'', 
with Paul Bergstein and Nacho Silva-Lepe,
{\em Software Engineering Journal},
July 1991, 205-228.

\item
``Incremental Class Dictionary Learning and Optimization'',
with Paul Bergstein,
{\em Proceedings of the European Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming}, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991, 377-396.

\item
``Object-Preserving Class Transformations'',
by Paul Bergstein,
{\em Proceedings of Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems,
Languages and Applications}, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1991.

\item
``Formal Foundations for object-oriented data modeling'',
with Cun Xiao,
{\em IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering}, June 1993.

\item
``In any CASE: Demeter'',
by Walter L. H{\"u}rsch and Linda M. Seiter and Cun Xiao,
{\em The American Programmer},
September, 1991.

\item
``The Hardware Description Language Zeus'',
{\em IEEE Design \& Test of Computers}, September 1992.

\item
``Object-Oriented Software Evolution'',
with Cun Xiao,
{\em IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, April 1993.
% Adaptive

\item
``Component Enhancement: An Adaptive Reusability Mechanism for 
Groups of Collaborating Classes'',
{\em Information Processing '92, 12th World Computer Congress},
Madrid, Spain.
%Adaptive

\item
``Specifying reusable components using contracts'',
by Ian M. Holland, {\em ECOOP '92}, 287-308, June/July 1992,
Utrecht, Netherlands, Springer Verlag.
  
\item
``Experience with a Graph-Based Propagation Pattern Programming Tool'',
with Walter Huersch, Ignacio Silva-Lepe and Cun Xiao,
{\em International Workshop on CASE}, 114-119, July 1992, 
Montr{\'e}al, Canada.
%Adaptive.
\ei

AUTHOR =      "Walter L. H{\"u}rsch and Karl J. Lieberherr and Sougata Mukherjea",
TITLE =       "Object-Oriented Schema Extension and Abstraction",
BOOKTITLE =   "Symposium on Applied Computing",
YEAR =        1993,
MONTH =       "February",
PUBLISHER =   acm,
ADDRESS =     "Indianapolis, Indiana",
NOTE =        "ACM Computer Science Conference"

AUTHOR    = "Ignacio Silva-Lepe",
TITLE     = "An Empirical Method for Identifying Objects and their
  Responsibilities in a Procedural Program",
BOOKTITLE = "TOOLS Europe, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and 
  Systems",
YEAR      = 1993,
PUBLISHER = "Prentice Hall",
ADDRESS   = "Versailles, France"


@ARTICLE{lieber-nacho-cun:pp-cacm,
  AUTHOR  = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Ignacio Silva-Lepe and Cun Xiao",
  TITLE   = "Adaptive Object-Oriented Programming using Graph-Based Customization",
  JOURNAL = "Communications of the ACM",
  YEAR    =  "1994",
  MONTH   = "May",
  VOLUME  = "",
  NUMBER  = "",
  PAGES   = "94-101"
}
% Adaptive

@INPROCEEDINGS{lieber-cun:japan,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Cun Xiao",
  TITLE = "Minimizing Dependency on Class Structures with Adaptive Programs",
  BOOKTITLE = International Symposium 
    on Object Technologies for Advanced Software,
  YEAR = "1993",
  ADDRESS = "Kanazawa, Japan",
  PAGES = "",
  EDITOR = "",
  PUBLISHER = "Springer Verlag"
  }
% Adaptive

@INPROCEEDINGS{linda:csm93,
  AUTHOR = "Linda Keszenheimer",
  TITLE = "Specifying and Adapting Object Behavior During System Evolution",
  BOOKTITLE = Conference on Software Maintenance,
  YEAR = "1993",
  ADDRESS = "Montreal, Canada",
  PAGES = "",
  EDITOR = "",
  PUBLISHER = "IEEE Press"
  }
%Adaptive

@INPROCEEDINGS{bh93:evolution,
AUTHOR =      "Paul L. Bergstein and Walter L. H{\"u}rsch",
TITLE =       "Maintaining Behavioral Consistency during Schema Evolution",
BOOKTITLE =   International Symposium 
  on Object Technologies for Advanced Software,
YEAR =        1993,
MONTH =       "November",
EDITOR =      "",
ORGANIZATION = "",
PUBLISHER =   Springer Verlag,
ADDRESS =     "Kanazawa, Japan",
PAGES =       "",
NOTE =        "Accepted for publication"
		      }
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