Adaptable and Adaptive Software Workshop
at OOPSLA'95

Organizers

John Lamping (lamping@parc.xerox.com)
Karl Lieberherr (lieber@ccs.neu.edu)
Cristina Lopes (crista@ccs.neu.edu)
Cun Xiao (xiao@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)

E-Mail:

adaptable-oopsla95@ccs.neu.edu

Call for Participation

One of the main reasons for using object oriented programming is to increase the flexibility and reusability of software. Many researchers have been studying object-oriented methodologies to find ways to improve those characteristics. Many approaches, such as the "frameworks" approach, allow the designer to produce a unit of software that is highly reusable in certain planned ways.

This workshop is aimed at exploring new trends in the reuse of software:

• how to allow software developers to plan for change.
• how to support changes in the development of software in ways that were not anticipated by the designers.

Software which supports richer reuse must be highly flexible and easily adaptable. Ideally, it should be adaptive, in the sense that it can adjust to certain context changes without the programmer intervention.

Only a few approaches to object-oriented software engineering concentrate on these issues. These tend to involve extensions to the object-oriented paradigm, so they are not currently "mainstream", but it is our belief that these approaches will be of paramount importance as object-oriented software engineering matures, and will be instrumental in achieving its potential.

The plan for this workshop is to bring together people who have experienced barriers to software reusability and those working on extensions to increase software flexibility.

Topics of Interest

Experiences with OO applications that became unmaintainable.
Examples of barriers to software reuse.
Issues in designing for software adaptability.
MOP's and their applications to adaptable designs.
Reducing the instantiation look-ahead of abstractions.
Data-structure-shy behavior.
Design patterns which promote adaptability.
Reuse of functionality other than through inheritance.
Developing adaptable software for concurrent and distributed systems.

Submission

Pointers of Interest

Adaptive Software Web Page at Northeastern University

Open Implementations Web Page at Xerox PARC

International Research Initiative on Compositional Object Technology Web Page at the University of Twente

Addresses

Prof. Karl Lieberherr
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #237CN
Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone: +1 (617) 373 2077 | Fax: +1 (617) 373 5121


John Lamping
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Phone: +1 (415) 812 4735


Cristina Videira Lopes
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #21CN
Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone: +1 (617) 373 5204 | Fax: +1 (617) 373 5121


Cun Xiao
IBM
1055 Joaquin Road
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Phone: +1 (415) 694 3011 | Fax: +1 (415) 694 3073