% This is a set of selected references to the Law of Demeter.

@string{sigplan = "SIGPLAN Notices"}
@string{oopsla = "Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications Conference, {\em in} Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices"}
@string{ieee-software = "IEEE Software"}
@string{csm = "Conference on Software Maintenance"}

@INPROCEEDINGS{LHLR:law-paper,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Ian Holland and Arthur J. Riel",
  TITLE = "Object-oriented programming: An objective sense of style",
  BOOKTITLE = oopsla,
  MONTH = "September",
  ADDRESS = "San Diego, CA",
  YEAR = "1988",
  VOL = 23,
  NUMBER = 11,
  PAGES = "323-334",
  NOTE = "A short version of this paper appears in 
  {\em IEEE Computer Magazine},
  June 1988, Open Channel section, pages 78-79."
  }

@ARTICLE{karl-ian:soft1,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Ian Holland",
  TITLE = "Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs",
  JOURNAL = ieee-software,
  YEAR = "1989",
  MONTH = "September",
  PAGES = "38-48"
  }

@INPROCEEDINGS{ian-karl:preventive,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Ian Holland",
  TITLE = "Tools for preventive software maintenance",
  BOOKTITLE = csm,
  YEAR = 1989,
  PUBLISHER = ieee,
  PAGES = "2-13",
  ADDRESS = "Miami, Florida, October 16-19"
  }

% Chapter 8 of the book (see below)
% discusses the Law of Demeter and its relationship
% to the small methods problem of OOP. It shows how the software
% can be written at a higher level of abstraction to reduce the small
% methods problem and to generate LoD conformant code for the traversals.

@BOOK{karl:demeter,
  AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr",
  TITLE = "Adaptive Object-Oriented Software:
  The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns",
  PUBLISHER = "PWS Publishing Company, Boston", 
  YEAR = "1996",
  NOTE = "ISBN 0-534-94602-X"
  }

@ARTICLE{sakkinen:law-88,
  AUTHOR = "Markku Sakkinen",
  TITLE = "Comments on the {Law of Demeter} and {C++}",
  JOURNAL = sigplan ,
  YEAR = 1988,
  MONTH = "December",
  PAGES = "38-44",
  VOLUME = "23" ,
  NUMBER = "12"
  }

@INPROCEEDINGS{minsky:law-96,
  AUTHOR = "Naftaly Minsky and Partha Pal",
  TITLE = "Imposing the Law of Demeter and Its Variations",
  BOOKTITLE = "TOOLS Conference" ,
  YEAR = 1996,
  MONTH = "August",
  PAGES = "",
  ADDRESS = "Santa Barbara, CA"
  }