To readers who are interested in Adaptive Object-Oriented
Software, I recommend the theses by Cun Xiao and Ignacio Silva-Lepe.

-- Karl Lieberherr
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Theses from the Demeter Research Group
are available by anonymous ftp from

ftp.ccs.neu.edu 


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

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

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

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demeter@ccs.neu.edu
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