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Advanced Object-Oriented Systems			Winter 1996
COM3362				
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Preliminary Syllabus, based on last years course.
Will be adapted to the interests of the students.

In the following we assume:

set DP = /pub/demeter/documents/papers

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Week 1:
Introduction to Design Patterns

Readings: 
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Software by 
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides.

Siemens Patterns: (architectural patterns)
/proj/lieber/papers/siemens-patterns

Hw: Create your own Design Patterns. Which patterns did you use
to create your COM 3360 and other projects?

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Week 2:
Roles and Dynamic Subclasses

Readings: TAPOS and ECOOP '94 paper by Wieringa, Jonge and Spruit

/proj/adaptive2/tapos/1/wieringa/roles.ps
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Week 3:
Multi-Object Coordination Schemes

Readings: Frolund and Agha (ECOOP '93), Ian Holland's work
(OOPSLA '90 and ECOOP '92 and  Ph.D. thesis):

URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:$DP/Hol91-Specify-Reuse-Components-Contracts.ps
URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/holland/chps.ps.Z

LL94-synch-patterns.ps

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Week 4:
Architecture Description Languages

Readings: CMU papers

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Week 5:
Maintaining Object-Oriented Software

Readings: Norman Wile papers and papers by Bergstein, Huersch and
Keszenheimer.

URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:$DP/HB93-maintain-behavior.ps
URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:$DP/K93-adapting-behavior-evolution.ps
URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:$DP/K94-behavior-evol-CAiSE.ps

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Week 6:
Maintaining Object-Oriented Software (continued)

Readings: Paul Bergstein's thesis

URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/pberg/thesis.ps

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Week 7:
Reverse-Engineering and Re-engineering into the Object-Oriented Paradigm

Readings: Ignacio Silva-Lepe's thesis

URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/nacho/thesis.ps
URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:$DP/SL94-pp-abs.ps

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Week 8:
Formal Foundations for Adaptive Software

URL  ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/cunxiao/thesis.ps

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Week 9:
Testing of Object-Oriented Software

URL ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/people/lieber/incr-test-adapt-soft.ps

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Week 10:
Comparison of Object-Oriented Software Development Methodologies


What I plan to do in the course is to cover advanced topics for which
there is no time to be covered in COM3360. Topics discussed will be useful
to practitioners and will also cover material which leads to
research  at either the Master (e.g. Master Thesis) or the Ph.D. level.
So I hope to attract a good group of practitioners 
as well as several Ph.D. students.

The course will have a project component where the learned concepts 
will be applied.

The Ph.D. students in the course are encouraged to work on a paper in
one of the above areas for submission to a conference.
The same applies to Master students who plan to do a Master Thesis.